28 February 2022
Film "Platoon" America is no longer the police of the world
Academy winning film (1986) directed by Oliver Stone. A young American boy joined the military force combatting in South Vietnam, and witnessed the hell including division within the comrades. Although it gained a good reputation, it wasn't as good as I expected. I liked "Born on the 4th of July" better among Oliver Stone's Vietnam films. The cause for the Vietnam War was to defend Vietnamese from communism. But they failed. Then they failed in Iraq and Afghanistan later. Now the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out. US seemed to side Ukraine but announced they...