Platoon

I must say, I think I'm losing my own innocence by watching these war movies. I was never much of a war-movie fan but these movies are just downright disturbing. After watching platoon, I think I almost went through post-war trauma. There were so many scenes that stayed with me a long time after the movie ended. Some of them being:

1) when the soldiers bang a Vietnamese boy's face with his gun multiple times
2) when Barnes shoots Elias
3) when Elias is running away from hordes of Viet Congs.
4) when a soldier is fighting and drops his gun and just screams in helplesness until he is shot
5) when Chris shoots Barnes

I don't even know if I can put into words my reaction to this movie. It was so surreal, yet so real. I thought that as I watched more war movies, I would become more immune to violence etc. but I think the oppsosite is happening. I seem to be getting more and more affected by it. I thinka ll these war movies reflect a different evil each time. FMJ showed the loss if innocence of the soldiers and the murkiness of war while Platoon showed that the solders were not only fighting an outside war but also a "civil war" within the troops. The funny thing is, you barley see any patriotism in these soldiers. Before, I always used to assume that all soldiers were fighting for their country but according to these movies, it seems like the majority of them don't even want to be there. Watching what happened at the Vietnman war really makes me wish that wars didn't exist at all.