Review of Platoon (1986) by Paul Attanasio for Washington Post — 01 Jan 2000
Platoon is a triumph for Oliver Stone, a film in which a visceral approach to violence, which has always set him apart, is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance. This is not the Vietnam of op-ed writers, rabble-rousers or esthetic visionaries, not Vietnam-as-metaphor or Vietnam-the-way-it-should-have-been.
It is a movie about Vietnam as it was, alive with authenticity, seen through the eyes of a master filmmaker who lost his innocence there.
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This review of Platoon (1986) was written by Paul Attanasio and published by Washington Post on 01 Jan 2000.
Platoon has generally received very positive reviews.
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