Platoon (15)

22 September 2009

Cinema

Written and directed by Vietnam veteran Oliver Stone with a brilliant cast including Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. Platoon is a brutal vision of war and won Stone both Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards.

Platoon is semi-autobiographical of Stone’s own experiences in Vietnam and was the first in his Vietnam trilogy with Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth subsequently showing the war from different perspectives. Platoon reveals the horrors of war through the eyes of a young soldier (Charlie Sheen) and its tagline was “The first casualty of war is innocence.”

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 2h

Country: USA

Year: 1986

Format: Digital

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