IMDb plot summary: A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, and Forest Whitaker.
While usually I find combat films incredibly dull, there are moments in this one that really work and highlight the terrifyingly... out-of-control nature of the work they're doing. It's not tidy and neat, things are going crazy and people are losing their minds and nobody has any idea what anybody's doing and then people die. There are still a lot of pieces in this, as in most war movies, that are slow, often tedious builds of an atmosphere, but I got enough out of it to be impressed.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Platoon > Star Trek: First Contact
Platoon < Brooklyn
Platoon < Swing Girls
Platoon < Sunday in the Park with George
Platoon < Must Love Dogs
Platoon > The Blues Brothers
Platoon > Man on Fire
Platoon < Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Platoon > Love Me Tonight
Platoon < Imitation of Life
Platoon < Cake
Platoon > Dumbo
Final spot: #1475 out of 3111.
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