It is obvious that the Vietnam War sub-genre has been a haven for fantastic films, with Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now being the heavyweights of them all. I had always thought of Platoon as the “runt of the litter” – seemingly a little less fleshed out with symbolism – until I recently … Continue reading “I am reality”: Oliver Stone’s grit-filled icon, ‘Platoon’ →