Blows away all previous imaginings of the horrors of war.

Rating: 8/10 (16 May 2007)

You have to be a true veteran of war to understand the horrors of it.Those of us who are not veterans of war have to rely on those who were there to tell the story.You have those who can verbally describe it,which gets the imagination going,but never quite enough.Then,you have someone like Oliver Stone,who has the power to recreate visually based on his own point of view.He was there,and he tells us through this Oscar winning film that this is what it looked like from his point of view.He wants us to see what he saw,for that is the only way for those of us who weren't there to understand what our fighting men went through.Imagination alone won't do it.Though I understand that you still had to be there to get the full grasp,thanks to Oliver Stone,now I understand a lot better.