Rejoice, Young Man in thy Youth

More ironic opening words for a film such as "Platoon," could not possibly be achieved. This film features neither rejoicing, nor happiness in any form, despite the key players being predominantly what in today's society are considered youths. The reality could not be farther from the truth. The film takes the viewer into a no-holds-bared depiction of the brutality of war and its affects upon the minds of those young soldiers made to fight therein. Despite previous comments, I believe this film to be almost completely devoted to the loss of innocence. It depicts the terror and response of a broken mind to the atrocious violence surrounding the individual. The film was about taking a privileged and moral young man and twisting him into a demented, confused, inconsistent, and eventually killer of fellow soldiers. While this final aspect may be seen as the most appropriate by the viewer (Barnes had it more than coming to him), it still was a crime lacking in moral judgement. To defend my claim of his inconsistency, I remind you that just seconds before the soldier bashed the crippled Vietnamese farmer's head in, Charlie Sheen himself had been pushing the men into such behavior by repeatedly firing a machine gun at the cripple's feet and pushing him to the ground. He barely was able to resist killing the man himself, and yet considered his fellow comrades "animals" upon observing their actions.

That's all I want to point out to anybody now. I was the only person to show up to Mr. P.'s screening. Shame on y'all!!! I am just kidding, but seriously, more people should show up if he ever does that again.