Directed by a Vietnam War veteran Platoon cannot be accused of a lack of realism. At the same time, the brutality of fighting covered in dirt, blood, and mosquitoes while surrounded by mutilated bodies of friends places this movie firmly in the realm of a difficult watch. Nonetheless, in the mind of a soldier lost among distant political bickering and existential questions, this film touches upon some sort of truth; truth of the brutal futility of war; of a man pushed to the limits of sanity, echoing every soldier who fought in Vietnam or the world wars or any other insane experiment of human savagery.
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