Post by Morgana on Aug 2, 2020 10:56:49 GMT
I was intrigued by the charges at the end of the film. Sean Penn's character who was the Sergeant and ring leader wasn't charged with rape, only unpremeditated murder and initially got 10yrs. The film depicted him as raping Oanh first.
Yes, it appears unfortunate, but as also thematically stated in the film, this was a wartime scenario and that they wouldn't end up serving anything too harsh. There would have been many many disgusting and unfathomable crimes committed towards the Vietnamese people that went officially unaccounted for. Oliver Stone briefly depicted the abduction and attempted rape of 2 young girls in Platoon - 86', only for the assailants to get accosted by Charlie Sheen's character before they went too far. Of course these sociopathic animals, which is an insult to beasts to place them in the same category, referred to him as a f@@@@t.
The whole thing was one big f<>king crime scene with legal license given to act like psychopathic pigs. These vet criminals though, have had to live with themselves and would that be easy?
Platoon is one of my favourite war films, and I remember that scene.
Atrocities get brushed over in war. Those in charge tend to look the other way. As Shakespeare put it:
"Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war."