caroline's thoughts on platoon

I watched Platoon yesterday and I have to say all these war movies are beginning to seem all the same. Platoon had some quiet moments and wasn't as chaotic as Full Metal Jacket but it still did a good job of portraying the war from a soldier's standpoint. The scene that stuck to me the most was in the first half of the movie when they all went into this village and just started shooting the innocent Vietnamese people living there. There was a point when this old lady comes out yelling when they repeatedly asked her husband where the Viet Congs were. When she was screaming at them in Vietnamese she was yelling about how they had killed the pigs and animals there. She was angry because that was all they had to live off of. This was how they made their money and without these animals, they would not be able to survive. She also kept saying that the Viet Congs were not there and that they don't come there. After they shot her, a little girl started crying hysterically, who they mistakenly thought was her daughter. It was really her grandma and she kept crying, "grandma, grandma!" but in a short so it would've been translated as granny. At this point it just seemed like the soldiers were just so frustrated that they weren't even sure who they were shooting. It also showed that many innocent Vietnamese were shot, like in Full Metal Jacket when they shot from the helicopter.