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Originally Posted by Vodstok
Platoon is one o fthose rare movies where the whole damn thing was practially an epic scene. Even the one where they are burning barrels of human waste. It was the pinacle of Oliver Stone's carreer in my book.
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Absolutely.
When they come across one of their own by the river, throat slit and layed up in front of the tree...
When the fat dude gets shot during night-shift, and is bleeding torrents among the confusion and chaos...
The kids crying behind-the-scene as Charlie Sheen chances upon them (and his fellow soldiers) in sheer horror and disgust..."She's a fucking human being man!" and gets spat upon...
...Its not a war movie by any means, its an exercise, in identification. Its basically a journey of every human on this planet, in discovering himself.
There is so much unsaid and being conveyed in currents throughout the movie (specially through Sheen's describing to his Grandma)..."We didn't fight the enemy, we fought ourselves..."
...goodness, if ever they handed out a prize for the Best Epic Movie Ever Made,
Platoon would be my immediate choice. And a strong contender for the prize.