Platoon Movie Analysis
Platoon tells the story of Vietnam from the point of view of a young, naive soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen). The film showed its viewers about war, and what it really was. Hot the dramatized part you see on TV, but the hell that it really was. Oliver Stone, the director of the movie, was actually a soldier during Vietnam. So parts of the storyline and the general idea behind the film were based on some of his personal experiences there. Sergeant Elias is portrayed as a caring leader who likes to use drugs to get away from the war. His enemy in the platoon, Sergeant Barnes (Tom Beringer), is portrayed as a fighting machine that will stop at nothing to get the job done. When you watch this movie, you see that Barnes will do everything and anything to survive. Barnes has much hubris. He thinks he can do anything.The story is narrated by Chris Taylor and begins with his arrival in Vietnam. The first thing he sees is rows of bodies being readied for shipment back to the U.S. He sees soldiers giving him the “stare” thinking that Chris has no idea what he is up against in Vietnam. He finds out that other soldier
Looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves-and the enemy was within us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there-the rest of my days. 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. During a patrol, a competition develops between Barnes and Elias which causes two factions to form in the platoon. This is the rising action of the movie. The two factions in the platoon argue about everything and you know that something is going to happen between the two leaders, Barnes and Elias. The platoon is obsdurate and ignores the fact that the platoon being in two different parts will not help them win the war. This leads to the final confrontation. After the platoon is evacuated from the area by helicopter, they see a man running on the ground, away form the enemy. It is Elias. Taylor recognition that Barnes actually tried to kill Elias, but did not succeed, sets him off onto a course to seek revenge.
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Barnes Elias,
Chris Taylor,
Oliver Stone,
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Sergeant Elias,
Charlie Sheen,
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