Saturday, September 29, 2007
More on Platoon
After watching it again, I can honestly say that I actually really enjoyed Platoon the most. I really didn’t get to say much in our discussion on Thursday, but what I think is that Platoon does the best job of portraying what war is like in general. It obviously does it in the Americans point of view and it never gives us enough information about the Vietnamese they were fighting against. What it does do is show us the dehumanizing process and how war turns you into a monster with no type of moral whatsoever. Taylor kept questioning lots of things because he still was not dehumanized yet. He still had some morals intact. He lost it on some occasions, like in the village. It really makes me feel sad to know that war does turn you into some killing machine. The dehumanizing process is also emphasized in Full Metal Jacket, but because of all the images of people being slaughtered and the narration of Taylor throughout Platoon, it does a better job in showing us how it is done. Take the scene of Bunny. He just bashed that guys head in like it was nothing. It was almost like a spirited sport team just playing around and acting stupid at times. This was also restated in The Things They Carried. This might be true because of the age of the soldiers. They were all so young. Watching these movies just makes me kind of sit back and see how precious life is. In the end though, I think Taylor was just all screwed up inside. Killing the Srgt. was uncalled for. He did it out of revenge.
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