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Film · Orion · 1986

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Platoon

64Watch it awake.

It refuses to call the killing a victory, and it is not for children.

The review

Keep children out of the room. A young soldier in Vietnam stands between two sergeants, one who protects and one who is cruel. There is a village. There is a killing the film does not treat as a victory. It was written from the director's own service, and it is an adult picture. Do not recount the violence later to make your point.

What it offers is a conscience with a bill. He has to choose which man he belongs to, and the film will not rescue you with a cheer. That is not the same as a kind story. The war still spends the boy. The mercy is only that you are not recruited to enjoy the spending.

Journal

Keep Platoon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Saving Private Ryan

75 instead of 64

Saving Private Ryan is still a war film, and it scores 75 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The errand is a mother's remaining son.

The eight

7
Industry
Soldiering is the work, and the film shows the job can rot the person doing it.
2
Household
No marriage or child is on screen. The platoon is the only home, and it splits.
8
Piety
He stands between a protector and a cruel sergeant, and the killing is not a win.
8
Courage
Choosing the man who protects can cost him the only safety the platoon offers.
7
Republic
A village is in the story, so the uniform owed people who were not the enemy.
7
Temperance
It will not let you enjoy the killing. That brake is the opposite of a recruitment.
8
Truth
Written from the director's own service. The cruelty is not sold as heroism.
4
Stewardship
After the village and the split, a young soldier remains and the war does not repent.

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Film · Universal · 2019

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1917

64Watch it awake.

A message carried through a broken country. The courage is not the camera. The courage is the errand.

The review

Schofield is not chosen because he is special. He is chosen because he can run and because he has a brother in the line, which is a questionable reason for a general to use and an understandable one for a soldier to accept. The film's gamble is to stay with the body that has to cross the ground. When it becomes a stunt, it thins. When it stays an errand, it is about duty under a command that is not always worthy of the men.

Older teenagers and adults. Do not let the technique be the conversation. The conversation is a piece of paper that can save lives if a tired man will keep walking. Most of moral life is closer to that than to a speech.

Journal

Keep 1917 in the record.