The winner of 1986's Best Picture Oscar, many consider Oliver Stone's Platoon to be the definitive film about the war in Vietnam.
Platoon is a well made, superbly acted tale of one soldier's life during the Vietnam war.
Now , we see the war through his eyes. War is not a just a backdrop for the story in Platoon , it IS the story. Stone expertly weaves these events into the entire framework of the film so everything blends together and no event really stands out as something just to move the plot along. Platoon 's supporting cast is filled with familiar faces. Actors like Forest Whitaker and Johnny Depp have of course gone on to bigger and better things.