Platoon

Oliver Stone really enjoys a good build up in a scene apparently. My comment will pertain to the first twenty minutes of the film due to the fact that the soldiers seem to think that they are in a position where absolutley nothing can get worse than it is, yet not one bullet is fired in the first twenty minutes. I particularly enjoy Charlie Sheen's voice overs as he is writing to his grandmother. I find it ironic that in one scenario he compares the first ten days in his platoon to Hell, then just as suddenly he turns right back around and says that humans that do not experience that are living "fake lives." If by fake lives he means most of society has not been face first in a mud puddle and hit rock bottom then he is correct. Yet, it almost seems as if he would prefer to live this passive "fake life" as he is unable to stand a first ten days where not one bullet has yet been fired. Then at the 21 minute marker when the enemy veers over the bushes, rather than stray from the fake life and begin this new real life in a platoon, his character panics and freezes up. In my oppinion that is as humanistic as a response as the realest person in the world to show fear.