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...UNITED STATES is about to invade Japan. On a recently recaptured Pacific island, one member of a platoon has just received his papers of leave to return to the States. The rest face death on the shores of Japan...
...embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would like to be around the world and what they actually...
...bother to think about politics at all are a toughened, cynical lot who can resist such blandishments. The political content of art has always been secondary to its crowd-pleasing appeal; the same audiences who saw Rambo two years ago the Top Gun last year are now flocking to Platoon, simply because they like a good heavy-calibre war flick...
...present, however, there will not be anydramatic changes in the docket of films, accordingto Cuberley. Such first-run films as Platoon and RadioDays, which are currently being shown, areconsidered sufficiently "artsy," Cuberley said...
Twenty years after it tore apart the nation' s conscience, the Viet Nam War reaches the screen with searing power and immediacy. Oliver Stone' s Platoon has already earned raves from the critics and long lines at the box office. It is also detonating a fire storm of memories and debate about the U. S. fighting man in the jungles of Southeast Asia. See SHOW BUSINESS...