Boasting career-defining performances from the likes of Robert De Niro Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep the movie tells the story of how the violence of the war affected a group of friends in.

Platoon movie violence. Be the first one to write a. Platoon is a triumph for Oliver Stone a film in which a visceral approach to violence which has always set him apart is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Background Platoon 1986 is a harrowing visceral ultra-realistic gutsy visually-shattering Vietnam-war film based on the writerdirectors own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier. Reviews There are no reviews yet. A collage of scenes from the 1986 Vietnam War film Oliver Stones Platoon that is for me when put in a right order effecitve sums up the barbaric side.

Graphic Sexual Content. In 1986 Platoon blew viewers away with a heavy dose of cinematic napalm. Stone also verified in the interview that Keanu Reeves turned down the role of Taylor because of the violence.

Platoon - Barnes Crosses the Line. With Charlie Sheen Tom Berenger Willem Dafoe Keith David. Platoon was instantly acclaimed upon its release as the first truly authentic look at Vietnam.

Platoon is a war film that contains strong war violence and language. When violence does come it is all the more shocking by being somehow welcome. It is film and television that tell us what life is like in a submarine or at the bottom of a mine or in an igloo.

Parents need to know that this Oscar-winning war drama -- one of the most highly regarded Vietnam War movies -- is highly violent powerful and devastating. Critics have faulted Platoon for the college-literary symbolism of the plot and for its romanticization of violence. Graphic Violence.