Platoon is thought of as one of the most well-known Anti-War films in the history of war films. As true as it is, it is a story of good vs evil. The war is there just to set a risky experience. No doubt, Platoon shows the Vietnam War was a big error, but being based on a false idea of Vietnam is far from its use.
The story of Platoon is told from the point of view of a young soldier, Chris Taylor. Chris Taylor is a young naïve boy who goes to Vietnam, thinking it was the right thing to do for his country. In the first ten minutes, Chris is shown in the rough jungle, struggling just to survive in natural conditions, let alone do any real harm to the enemy. Quickly we're introduced to the well-known faces of the Vietnam War: The one who lacks a of sense of purpose, the ghost-like enemies, the bluntly obvious number of the poor among the fighting grunts and we see how these factors combine to cause widespread depression and some actions of more than possibly not true, good, or honest and right value.
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Elias and Sgt. Barnes. These two really are the motive force behind the film. They both have in terms the same enemy but, really, it doesn’t take long to realise that Elias is Good, and Barnes is Evil. The “enemy" does not enter into the purpose of this film, at all, it's an outside threat, I won't deny it is a very dark and light relationship, but this split does not feel intended. Elias feels the uselessness of the war and has respect for life, whereas Barnes fights the war wilfully and has no respect for life. Both are effective soldiers fighting the same enemy, but really, as is at one point well put by Chris Taylor himself, they are fighting for the lives of the team members, as the result of the war is never really in
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” – John F. Kennedy. The American troops have always lived by this type of mentally and Kennedy is absolutely correct to say that Americans have to pay for it, especially our troops. Ever since the both World Wars, there has been an elevation on Traumatic cases within our soldiers regardless of their nation. However, the United States has become more aware of this on-growing situation, but just being more aware is not enough. We keep seeing a rise in the amount of these cases, and we are wondering, “When is this going to be fixed?” In order to understand this issue we need to go to the
He feels Yanagi’s pain through the connection but he does not draw attention to it. To be in the heat of a powerplay game such as the one boiling over in Konoha right now is a moment of extreme delicacy and ruthlessness; attachments are withheld, persons numbed down. The rampant mentality is this: eliminate those who are likely to get in one’s way, even if they are friends, or valuable allies. Nobody who lived through the Warring States Era would be unfamiliar with this tenet: do what must be done. And if Tobirama was forced to choose among the Yamanaka twins, he would keep Yanagi alive, simply because she is now the more valuable of the two, even though Yanagi herself and most definitely, not Osamu, would admit it. For to dabble in politics is to know who has value, worth and utility, and who do not.
Here, the author builds on the idea of friendship throughout the platoon. By using a paradox, the author emphasizes the closeness of Perry’s individual platoon. In addition, by demonstrating the closeness of the platoon, the author demonstrates another positive effect of war.
In her book The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, author Marilyn Young examines the series of political and military struggles between the United States and Vietnam, a nation that has been distinctively separated as the South and the North. Young chooses to express the daily, weekly, monthly progresses of the affairs collectively called the Vietnam Wars, focusing on the American interventions in the foreign soil. She seeks to provide an answer to a question that has haunted the world for years: What was the reason behind the United States interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign country in which it had no claims at all? Young discloses the overt as well as covert actions undertaken by the U.S. government officials regarding the foreign affairs with Vietnam and the true nature of the multifaceted objectives of each and every person that’s involved had.
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, is a story that talks and describes about a platoon of soldiers in Vietnam. The story revolves around the death of one of the soldiers in Vietnam. The story gives a great description of what life in Vietnam is really like. In the novel Tim O’Brien, describes how loneliness and isolation can be very destructive to someone’s life.
The Vietnam War was a long conflict lasting between 1955 to 1975 between the communist North and the democratic south with help from the United States. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 American troops were killed in the conflict. Tim O 'brien 's short story “The Things They Carried” follows a platoon named alpha company during the peak of the Vietnam war led by first lieutenant Jimmy Cross who is very charismatic but in his mind he is unsure how to lead his squad because his mind tends to wander to a thought of a girl back home. Throughout the story he has overcome with emotions and guilt because he believes he his the reason for some of his squadmates death. “The Things They Carried” Embodies the hardship, reality, and price/toll of war, ultimately Tim O’brien writes this masterpiece as not of a war story, but as a love story and how that love changed a man.
The Vietnam war was an absolutely brutal time in American history. The war lasted for the majority of the 1960s and left many young men dead. The short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and the film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam give us just a glance into the war by giving using the three themes of fear, pressures, and blame/guilt to embody the concept of war and how it absolutely changes a person. War not only destroys countries, but it destroys people.
One character is obviously the comic relief, another the beloved hero. The rest, valiant men fighting for their country, their lives, their freedom. The scene ends and the curtain rises, all of the pseudo soldiers take a bow and go home to their normal lives, far from the hands of death that grasp at the men forgotten in Vietnam, the real soldiers. They, who saw the hardships of war as more than just a script, beyond the glamorized versions that are seen by the American eyes. They saw the death and the tragedy, slowly becoming worn down into less of a human and more of a desensitized killing machine because that 's what war does. It permanently scars the soldiers, tearing away the feeling of loss and inappropriately replacing it with comedy, showing that war is destructive, stealing away an ounce of humanity with each bullet. As seen in The Things They Carried, written by Tim O 'Brien, the Vietnam War destroyed the minds of soldiers, causing them to lose their human emotions in an unglamorous setting, devaluing death as they lose their ability to appropriately handle situations.
In the novel, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien there is an ambiguity assigned to the life of a soldier in the Vietnam war, an ambiguity that represents no clear moral victor, no clear heroes, and seemingly no end. In the movie, Platoon, written and directed by Oliver Stone, the same ambiguity is depicted, with no clear moral direction, no clear heroes, and no clear resolution. In the short story, “How to Tell a True War Story,” O’Brien talks in great detail about how a true war story, and not some reimagining, “is never moral” (O’Brien) and “cannot be believed” (O’Brien). According to O’Brien, the movie Platoon will qualify as a true war story because it is not moral, hard to believe, and has no clear resolution.
These differing personalities haul the two characters into a combat of determination, and should be captured by the highly conflicting styles of the two actors.
In most of the films, the troopers inside the unit became nearer as time passes. The only real antagonist to the cluster is typically the unit leader once he is yelling or arduous the disobedient unit. However, Platoon takes the problems among the unit to a special level. Not exclusively is there disputes between the leader and conjointly the troopers, but there was collectively constant
Each fight they have is always a lost cause because there ends up being no winner. Both characters seem to always be on the opposing side, so much that one of the characters thinks about leaving their significant other. If someone is unable to see eye to eye with his or her partner, it becomes difficult to maintain a strong relationship. With this argument, the reader is able to see that this character
The Vietnam War started on November 1, 1955. 9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era. Those that went into the war zone suffered, not only from wounds but also from a variety of jungle diseases and malnutrition. One of the few sources of clean water came from water purification tanks at Vietnamese refugee camps.Preventive medicine teams worked to control rodent and insect infestations, spray for malarial mosquitoes, and purify unclean water.
Several historical events are depicted, or alluded to in Platoon and condensed to fit the narrative of the story. The village scene in Platoon is inspired by the My Lai Massacre played out a similar situation depicting the murder of innocent Vietnamese, the gang rape of females and having Lt Wolfe react like the actual Lt. Calley at the massacre “If you are asking why I did not stand up to them when I was given the orders”- William Calley (2009). Since Platoon only focuses on a few individual soldiers it causes it to portray the massacre as a few individuals doing illegal killings, and the rape of Vietnamese instead of the actual wide scale of the event that resulted in the death of over 300 Vietnamese and several gang rapes are all condensed
In the movie Platoon, the author, Oliver Stone, tells us a story about an American soldier in Vietnam during the war. The story is mostly based on his own experience when he went there. Even though the story is fictional, he keeps it really realistic and the more close possible to what was reality in Vietnam. He shows how that war was hell for the soldiers we sent there and also for the local population. Oliver Stone produced Platoon to show his disapproval of the war in Vietnam, because that war harmed the American soldiers that went there and also the population that they were supposed to protect. To deliver his political message, Stone used different elements of a movie like the structure of the plot, cinematic techniques and