Platoon movie Addeddate 2020-05-15 104428 Identifier platoon_202005 Scanner Internet Archive Python library 181.

Platoon movie themes. The main focus in Platoon is on soldiers and the way they endure the hellish experience of war. A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. Platoon 1986 SoundTracks on IMDb.

On its surface Platoon is just a war movie. Adagio for Strings from the movie PLATOON. Another one of the platoon kills him.

Always makes me emotional. You believe theyre out there in Vietnam. These themes have been analyzed in previous posts.

History is important. Many of the songs he selected were not even used in the film. Charlie Sheen sums up this theme with his on-the-nose voiceover We did not fight the enemy.

War is an easy way to tell the story. Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings performed by the Folsom Symphony June 2 2012 Summer Symphony at the Movies Theme for movie Platoon. Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers.

Platoon focuses on the moral decay of soldiers in American units and how this contributes to their inability to fight their Vietnamese enemies. Taylor had the chance to go to college but instead he goes to fight in Vietnam and this makes him a very interesting character to base the story around. Throughout the film we experience the platoons frustrations anxieties and fears of fighting an invisible enemy that the platoon seems to have little to no impact against.