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Little Film Critic-"Field Platoon"
Brent 2021-10-18 09:29:27
In military-themed films, classics reflecting World War II and the Vietnam War have emerged one after another. Oliver Stone won the Oscar for Best Picture Award in 1987, "Field Platoon", which is one of the representative ones. Despite the differences in style, in terms of artistic achievements, it is comparable to Kubrick's "Full Metal Shell" and Coppola's "Apocalypse of War". In such a film that truly embodies the "Cruelty of War", we cannot see the heroic image of Captain Miller in "Saving Private Ryan". As an "unjust war", the American soldier in the Vietnamese jungle, It more reflects the distortion of human nature and the depravity of morality. They are no longer warriors against fascist Nazis, but just a group of cold-blooded and cruel killing machines, which can kill unarmed civilians and can free themselves among their comrades. Kill each other and wait for survival or death in the smoke of war. In the film, the conflict between the human nature and the animal nature of the American soldiers is portrayed by the director. The anti-veteran killings between comrades-in-arms and the killing and abuse of Vietnamese civilians are the perfect embodiment of this intention. In the middle of the film, when the sergeant played by William Dafoe was attacked by another sergeant Barn with a cold gun and was abandoned by the retreating troops, and finally died under the gun of the Vietnamese army, the huge tragedy expressed a shocking theme. , Is sobering. The soldier knelt on the ground, raised his hands, raised his head to the sky, the bullet hit the flesh, splashing blood and screaming horror, this tragic picture has been fixed in my mind for many years. The only remaining justice and conscience of the soldiers in the war eventually lost to the bloodthirsty and twisted dark human nature.
Extended Reading
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Selmer 2021-10-20 19:00:52
Stone's masterpiece is powerful and thought-provoking. The music is so good~
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Piper 2022-03-24 09:01:11
Many critics say that this is the most real war movie. These comments are absurd. The life-and-death war is not about love. It is an experience that most people don't have. If you haven't experienced it before, you can talk about truth. The so-called truth is just in line with the imagination of those of us. The movie itself is very good, such as the details and overall tone of the leech.
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Bunny: [Coaxing a villager's pig to come to him] Hey, piggy, piggy. Hey, pig!
[shoots pig at point blank range and laughs]
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Sgt. Barnes: You don't tell me how to run my war, Elias! Now you go cryin' and rat-fuckin' the brigade on your own time, but out here, you belong to me! Now move!
Sgt. Elias: You're an asshole, Barnes.