The film ends with his rising from the disaster, again in a helicopter. Be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again,to teach to others what we know and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this life. This is the true resurrection. Stone has vaporized the defeat by converting it into the caricature of a morality play about a civil war. The would of defeat was converted into a cathartic experience in which the American dream persisted.
Art heightens memory.
As Riefenstahl demonstrated, propaganda can erase it , as well as any sense of ethical reality. Stone's visual manipulation literally exorcised the publicUs memory of failure and of . In the aftermath of Platoon, other films , such as The Hill, were made, reflecting this new perception, and slowly the general manner in which the whole war was treated softened and became positive. Click on the icon to download.