Cineaste, September 22nd, 1995
Nearly a decade after its release, Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986), notwithstanding its various esthetic and political shortcomings, remains distinguished as the most authentic cinematic portrayal of the experience of U.S. troops in Vietnam. Departing from most war film genre conventions, and drawing upon Stone's own Vietnam combat experience, the film succeeded in conveying a visceral sense of the chaos, clamor, and fear that characterizes warfare, and provided an almost physical sense of the heat, rain, and muck of the jungle and the maddening plague of mosquitoes, leeches, snakes, and other...
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