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[manic-rants]

FINE ILL ADMIT IT...im one of 'THOSE' sonic fans 😔

*shows you my sonadow fanart/redesigns/fanifics where shadow has sh scars and sonic has top sergery scars*

[halfwheat]

Thunder

[mendthebroken]

ahh the sweet moment when the clock strikes midnight and no "post limit" can hold you back

[thegingerbat]

I feel like it's a necessity to watch both Boondock Saints tomorrow. 

[bruce-fucking-banner-blog]

My Search for a lovely Tumblr wife has been ended :)

[ddelirium]

TIS TIME

to baketh.

[tentpoleblog-blog]

This is one of those films your Dad might have offered to you as one of his favorites, well not my Dad, but this is just to say that Platoon is a guy’s movie from another generation - and it is one of the best. Platoon is about the Vietnam War - yes, this means guns, explosions, and a lot of dude time on screen – HAZAHH! The film is, however, serious and serves as an important film for the way it participates in the conversation about the Vietnam War. If you don’t like good movies, just go ahead and watch Twilight again, we won’t judge.

Platoon

Director: Oliver Stone

Year: 1986

Netflix: DVD

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%

The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was a controversial time in American history, effecting us as a nation and the American people individually, including the director of Platoon, Oliver Stone. Throughout Stone’s masterpiece, he uses his own perspective and experiences to convey a liberal, antimilitarist sentiment towards the Vietnam War. The film’s narrative underbelly is driven by comments made by the character Chris Taylor, played by actor Charlie Sheen, giving the film a first-person-feel and providing a direct avenue for Stone’s own voice. Taylor’s two mentors in the film, Barnes and Elias, provide two very different points of the war: Barnes takes the conservative angel, believing in the military machine, while Elias speaks toward the liberal side, possessing a progressive view of the morality of war. These two characters become the focus of the film’s message, with Taylor acting as an unbiased, innocent participant. Oliver Stone’s Platoon provides an avenue for the political and cultural significance of the Vietnam War to be explored through these characters, while revealing a raw image of what actually took place.

Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam straight from college and with little knowledge of the war beyond his feelings of patriotism. The viewer is introduced to the war along with Taylor as he passes weathered soldiers and body bags as he arrives for his tour of duty. The men in his platoon are divided into two groups: the “juicers” and the “heads,” of which Taylor is neither. His place in life is unlike theirs, which forms an important distinction that allows for Taylor’s character to grow in ways that his previous environment would have never allowed. Oliver Stone uses the character of Taylor to allow his commentary to become accessible, creating an opportunity for the viewer to be just as much of an observer of the war as Taylor, himself.

 Platoon is inherently a liberal film and means to comment on the brutality of the war and the misguided approach Stone believes America took by going into the confrontation. This is important to realize within the context of the film in order to understand the underlying personal commentary from Oliver Stone as well as the symbolism of the characters and situations. The film has been analyzed from the standpoint of an artifact of media culture and how the film can be read politically for its ideological significance. Focusing on the conflicting political viewpoints of the war: the Left, Liberal viewpoint attacks the U.S. involvement in the war, while the Right, Conservative stance, represents thoughtless patriotism and a love of militarism, the film takes on an interesting tone as a participant in the conversation regarding the Vietnam war. The film is considered for its historical impact in regard to its depictions and underlying message of the Vietnam War. This is taking into consideration the viewpoint that history is something of a common consensus that is impacted by more than just the event itself. With this in mind, films like Platoon take on an important voice in the conversation regarding how the event was and will be viewed in the future. The film then deals with the morality of war that typically pushes the participants into moral uncertainty, which is represented by the relationships of the three main characters. 

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