i read one other review that express the view that platoon be a never end cycle of marine kill people and be kill and take drug and talk trash . i do not agree with that because the film actually have more to it and but it a way and i can see what this person be try to say represent this have no real plot which be a point i agree with . it be self indulgent stone at his best . he really want to show and not only how war lead to death and but also how it be extremely traumatic on those who survive . unfortunately and the film seem to over glorify this aspect and the grand finale be just way too champagne and grand standing and oscar hunt let create an enduring image for my liking . the problem i have with stone and other film maker of his ilk be that they fail to understand this simply concept represent depict the terribly bloody deadly waste that war be do not prove or even reflect on whether it be an unjust or immoral war . we have see the same thing emerge at the moment with iraq . in case youre miss the point and let me put it to you bluntly represent if you saw how truly bloody the second world war be and how destructive it be on the life of the survive soldier and would you think it be an unjust war . if that fact alone doesn not convince you that it be an unjust war and then why should depiction of the horror of vietnam convince you that it be wrong to go to war in that instance . personally and i do not support america decision to go to war in vietnam and but i certainly do not subscribe to the this war be wrong because people die and suffer theory . i do not think that motivation be always wrong by default and just because war in itself be terrible . this say nothing of the fact that the end or the final big twist be a bit stupid . however and this be not stone first oddball departure . wall street be a magnificent film and up until the last 30 minute or so when it make a dreadful wrong turn . jfk be probably one of the few film stone do that actually end very well . but it hardly matter in this one because there be very little plot up until that point of the film to twist around . and this be why i give it such a low mark . it be virtually story less and ultimately boring unless you fell for the manufactured poignancy .