Platoon

Somebody once wrote "Hell is the impossibility of reason". That's what this place feels like. Hell The first scene is as fast as impactful, showing two men sharing two different stares: - one is a stare of fear, of a young soldier jumping to an unknown fate - the other is a "Thousand yard stare", of someone who is leaving the battle ground with his body, but not his soul Everything in this movie makes you feel the Misery of Vietnam war. The bug bites, the sweat mixed with mud, the lost stares, the absense of music for almost the entirety of the movie, with small sequences filled with sadness and death underlined by the "Adagio for Strings". It showed the different reasons for going to war, who is poor and getting drafted because he's no use in society, who is looking for a motivation to keep living day by day, running away from the feeling of failing in life, who just loves to have the freedom to kill, rape and destroy... Constant is the feeling of being in danger, with booby traps hidden everywhere and stealthy vietkongs ready to assault the platoon with rifles and RPGs Humanity leaves each of the soldiers as soon as they can feed their instincts, need for revenge and violence, burning whole villages of innocent people, killing civilians and pointing guns at children She's a fucking human being. Fuck you. Fucking animals. All of you are fucking animals. Time passes ... the comrades themselves become more dangerous than the vietkongs, dealing with contrasts and different opinions with friendly fire and betrayal.> Death? What do you all know about death? Kevin Dillon's "Bunny" and Tom Berenger's "Barnes" are disgusting characters, who kill for fun or because they are told to, in total contrast with Charlie Sheen's "Chris Taylor" and Willem Dafoe's "Elias", who try to stay human even while doing such inhuman things, the so called Crusaiders Yeah, I love this place at night. The Stars. There's no right or wrong in them. They're just there. The shot of Barnes in the final battle, with his eyes red shining in the night like a wild beast, holding the shovel ready to kill his own comrade Chris, made it even more clear that he had become totally inhuman, leading to his departure, killed by Chris himself.> I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy. We fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will alway be there the rest of my days.I think this might be one of the best movies about Vietnam War, a 2 hours long sequence of raw fights, treason, gunfire and ... no real reason for all of this to happen. Because that's what War is all about