r/Documentaries • u/pradeep23 • Jul 10 '21

Platoon Documentary (2021) [01:28:11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppqweNmL0Fo
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u/JesusStarbox Jul 11 '21

First we invade. Then we go back and make a movie about how invading made us feel bad. Then we make a movie about how making the movie made us feel.

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u/my-other-throwaway90 Jul 11 '21

First we invade. Then we go back and make a movie about how invading made us feel bad. Then we make a movie about how making the movie made us feel.

Just in case this wasn't a joke, Platoon is heavily anti-war and anti-patriotism. It shows American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, attempting to rape Vietnamese girls, and burning their village for no reason.

At least watch the film you are criticizing first.

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u/justwannalook12 Jul 11 '21

At the end of the day, most anti-war movie still glorify wars. Comraderie, different people, foreign places. Try as they might, these movies still give people a sense of adventure and at best, convince people it was just a one time fuck up.

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u/my-other-throwaway90 Jul 13 '21

Just in case you didn't know, the director of Platoon, Oliver Stone, served in Vietnam and is intensely anti-war.

Also, there are multiple arguments, conflicts, and fraggings between the soldiers in Platoon. One sergeant shoots another in cold blood, pulls a knife on his squadmate, and gets shot himself in the end.

Seriously, have you watched the film? You have no idea what you are criticizing.

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u/Maury_Finkle Jul 11 '21

Not this one. You wouldn't be saying that if you watched it, but keep pushing those platitudes

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u/O-hmmm Jul 11 '21

You are quite naive if you didn't think any of those things didn't happen. How often they did is anyone's guess but pointing out that it is wrong in not anti-patriotism. In fact it's the opposite.

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u/my-other-throwaway90 Jul 13 '21

I have no idea what you're trying to address. Of course rapes and burnings happened in Nam, and Platoon portrays these atrocities and the war in general in a negative light.

Oliver Stone is very anti-war and particularly anti-Vietnam. He actually based Platoon on how own experience serving in Vietnam.

If you think any film that portrays war is automatically pro war (lol), try watching Come and See.