The Longest War: Platoon, By Roger Ebert

The Longest War: Platoon

By Roger Ebert

EXCERPT: "It was Francois Truffaut who said that it's not possible to
make an anti-war movie, because all war movies, with their energy and
sense of adventure, end up making combat look like fun. If Truffaut
had lived to see "Platoon," the best film of 1986, he might have
wanted to modify his opinion. Here is a movie that regards combat from
ground level, from the infantryman's point of view, and it does not
make war look like fun. The movie was written and directed by Oliver
Stone, who fought in Vietnam and who has tried to make a movie about
the war that is not fantasy, not legend, not metaphor, not message,
but simply a memory of what it seemed like at the time to..."

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