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Originally Posted by taxwonk
The thing about movies like this, or Platoon, is that it glamorizes the heroism our soldiers display and it marginalizes the human and economic cost on the other side. The people and the soldiers never see the real enemy.
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I don't know if I agree with your example. I'll admit that I've never watched Platoon from start to finish, but it's because of the rape scene. I was like 16 or 17 when I saw that and I had to turn it off. Maybe the tone changes, but I didn't get any sense of heroism from what I saw.
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