Watched Platoon for the first time

[vercetti2021]

All I could do was cry off and on. Is this more accurate about what happened in Vietnam? Forrest Gump didn't go into it more detailed. Full Metal Jacket kinda brushed on it more. But this one hit me extremely hard.

[applegrove]

1. The writer and director, Oliver Stone, was in Vietnam. He volunteered

to go. His best flic by far. I tend not to cry at movies....too busy taking it in. But the scene when they leave E behind struck deep. Best movie on the topic I think.

[The Magistrate]

2. It's A Good One, Sir

The 'two fathers' plot is one helluva stretch, but what you see is pretty straight as far as what happens.

Allow me to suggest another, not on Vietnam but earlier, 'The Thin Red Line'. It is based on a book by James Jones, now largely forgotten as an author but worth recollection. The movie is better then the book, though odd in spots. It is exquisitely observed.

[murielm99]

3. You are right about the movie being better than the book.

I seldom say that.

[hlthe2b]

4. while Barber's "Adagio for Strings" has been the background for so much through history...

it is forever linked to its use in "Platoon" for me. No feigned glory in that movie, for sure. Vietnam was and is our national tragedy.

[Walleye]

5. Like most boomers I remember the Vietnam era very well. Can't watch film about it without crying

I lost classmates, families split overit that never got back together, it was so sad. We felt so helpless against it