He soon realizes he is fighting two battles.

Platoon movie analysis. Hot the dramatized part you see on TV but the hell that it really was. One cynical and toughened that are below Sergeant Barnes and a hopeful idealistic group below Sergeant Elias. An analysis of the themes and symbols found in the movie Platoon written in an easy-to-understand format.

Platoon was released in 1986 and follows the Vietnam War through the eyes of Bravo Company in 1967. In the beginning Chris Taylor is very ignorant and his chances of survival are slim. When an illegal killing occurs during a village raid a wedge forms between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon.

In Platoon there is the constant fear that any movement offers a 50-50 chance between a safe place or an exposed one. The typical film though does not provoke a political free-for-all. Beginning in 1967 Platoon follows the story of Chris Taylor as he is sent among his other young fellow soldiers to Vietnam.

Army battalion in Vietnam that centralizes on the character of Chris Taylor. From the looks of it as he enters the platoon there are two main groups. And as he struggles for survival he soon realizes he is fighting two battles the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

The story is mostly based on his own experience when he went there. The image of a soldier on the grassy jungle battlefield of Vietnam arms thrown above his head as he meets his tragic fate at the hands of the Viet Cong it tells an entire story in one frame. The conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

Review and analysis of Oliver Stones classic 1986 Vietnam war memoir Platoon. As the war continues Chris struggles for survival. Platoon is a movie that advocated heavily for war veterans showing that there often is more than war going on as a young man is sent out on the field.