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Film · Orion · 1986

Platoon

Platoon

64Watch it awake.

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

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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.

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Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 8Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 7Republic
  6. 7Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 4Stewardship

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Consider this

Letters from Iwo Jima

76 instead of 64

Letters from Iwo Jima is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The letters are how a household survives a man it will not see again.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Soldiering is the work, and the film shows the job can rot the person doing it.

  2. 2
    Household

    No marriage or child is on screen. The platoon is the only home, and it splits.

  3. 8
    Piety

    He stands between a protector and a cruel sergeant, and the killing is not a win.

  4. 8
    Courage

    Choosing the man who protects can cost him the only safety the platoon offers.

  5. 7
    Republic

    A village is in the story, so the uniform owed people who were not the enemy.

  6. 7
    Temperance

    It will not let you enjoy the killing. That brake is the opposite of a recruitment.

  7. 8
    Truth

    Written from the director's own service. The cruelty is not sold as heroism.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    After the village and the split, a young soldier remains and the war does not repent.

Live historically

Watch it with adults only, and talk about the two sergeants, not the bodies.

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Film · Universal · 2019

1917

1917

64Watch it awake.

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

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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.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 9Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 7Stewardship

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

Letters from Iwo Jima

76 instead of 64

Letters from Iwo Jima is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The letters are how a household survives a man it will not see again.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    A runner's job: keep the paper dry, keep moving, do not become the story.

  2. 4
    Household

    A brother in the other company is the private reason. The public reason is the sixteen hundred.

  3. 3
    Piety

    A song in a wood, a ruined town. Reverence flickers and is not a sermon.

  4. 9
    Courage

    He goes on after the man he came with is dead. The order still stands.

  5. 8
    Republic

    The plot is a chain of command that can save or waste a regiment. He is trying to make it save them.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    The single shot is a feat and a temptation. The dying is not a trick.

  7. 7
    Truth

    The attack is a mistake. Delivering that fact is the whole truth of the mission.

  8. 7
    Stewardship

    If he gets there, other men get a tomorrow. That is the only legacy the film is interested in.

Live historically

Carry one message all the way to the person it was for, instead of leaving it half-sent.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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