... civilians, racial division, drugs, and lack of confidence in ranking officers. Commenting on his characters, Stone calls Barnes and Elias, "Two Gods. Two different views of the war. The Angry Achilles Versus the conscious-stricken Hector" who "mirror the very civil war that I"d witnessed in all the units I was in." In the film, Elias puts a stop to a massacre and overrides Barnes ... ...

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