In fact, when it comes to Vietnam War movies, fans are familiar with many things, such as "Full Metal Shell", "Modern Apocalypse", "Green Beret", "Deer Hunter" and so on. The Vietnam War has always been a lingering pain in the hearts of Americans, and at the same time, the Vietnam War was a crucial local war for the entire twentieth century. And for the United States, its significance is even more far-reaching, and the influence of American press and public opinion on the Vietnam War is classic.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the development of liberal thought reached its peak, so under such a premise, the ceasefire of the Vietnam War can be said to be a compromise for the Americans under the pressure of public opinion. This compromise masked the military defeat of the U.S. military. Give the American soldiers who have no desire to fight a better excuse to return to their hometowns and become ordinary people, rather than groups of soldiers pushed to the front lines. This was the overall trend of thought in the Vietnam War, at least in the eyes of the Americans.
Under such a trend of thought, the above films, can not accurately grasp much, "Modern Apocalypse" is very profound, but the portrayal of the Vietnamese people is still one-sided and evil, as for "All Metal Shell" and "Deer Hunter", etc., are reflections on the US military's own military thinking, and "Green Beret" is the main theme of the United States. Are there any films that fully reflect the Vietnam War and view the Vietnam War as an equal? Of course.
"Field Platoon" is a film that many fans can't avoid that truly reflects the Vietnam War. Whether from the anti-war or from the perspective of human nature, "Field Platoon" is a relatively objective war film. At least it shows us that the confrontation between the Vietnamese army and the US military is a confrontation between counterattack and attack, and the atrocities of the US military in Vietnam have always been senseless and cannot be spared. Is Field Platoon objective? Relatively objective, any war movie will have a natural anti-war mentality, and "Field Platoon" is no exception, it allows us to see the most ordinary side of war. Killing and anger.
"Field Platoon" mainly tells the story of an American college student who entered the war, when Taylor first came to Vietnam, everything was fresh, he was also a young man with ideal ambitions, but the experience in Vietnam made this young man full of ideals gradually begin to get bored. Endless killings, indiscriminate slaughter, and even distrust of one's own people are bombarding the young man's brain. Eventually, after a baptism of life and death, Taylor went completely crazy, and he eventually turned into what he hated. At the same time, he also understood the nature of war.
War is divided into just and unjust wars, and at the same time, wars need reasons. In the eyes of the Vietnamese, war is to defend the country and resist aggression, so they hate the US military and can win at all costs. It seems that in the radiation circle of East Asian civilization, many countries have such an attitude toward aggression, and such an attitude is derived from the spirit of not being afraid of death.
However, for the Americans, the Vietnam War is a war, a war that can legally kill people, and the US military can rely on the superiority of advanced weapons to carry out dimensionality reduction strikes against the Vietnamese army. The war scene that the U.S. military wants requires the navy and air force to work together, and then the army needs to finish it. However, in fact, the terrain of Vietnam determines that such a war scene is not easy to appear. The U.S. Army's need for high technology and big vision is significantly stronger than that of the Vietnamese Army, so in the Vietnamese jungle, the Vietnamese army is like a fish in the water, and the U.S. army is like a fish in the throat. After losing its geographical superiority, the psychological superiority of the US military relying on advanced weapons will no longer exist. This was the tone of the entire Vietnam War.
Under such a tone, the U.S. Army gradually developed war-weariness, and it was natural for the mysterious Vietnamese army to change the wind. This is the mass psychology of the whole jungle war. Under such a psychology, it is not difficult to understand the choice of several important characters in the film. Before Taylor's ideals were shattered, he saw the Vietnam War as a war against the Vietnamese army, and the rules were to be followed by the civilians in any war. Elias also agrees with this, which is for people with firm ideals.
However, not all of the US troops who participated in the war had a clear and clear understanding of the war. There are many people in the US military who do not have a firm idea as a backing, such as Barnes, but as the war deepens, Barnes and others gradually reveal their original form. They do not have the spiritual pursuit of defending the country like the Vietnamese army, so the war in their eyes is your life and death, I do not kill you, my safety factor will not climb. So the slaughter began.
The indiscriminate slaughter was opposed by Taylor and Elias, but when their voices were gradually distorted by the cruelty of war, the original clear understanding of war became even more illusory. After experiencing the baptism of Blood of the Vietnamese Army, Taylor finally became Barnes. All the atrocities that had preceded cruel Barnes were completely attached to Taylor when Taylor turned his gun at Barnes. An idealist who was completely forced into a killing machine during the Vietnam War. Sure enough, in the melting pot of war, no one can stay out of it.
The wake-up call of "Field Platoon" lies in the low morale of the U.S. military and the firm confidence of the Vietnamese army to resist aggression, and the crimes committed by the U.S. military against the Vietnamese people have been officially pushed onto the stage without embellishment. Aggression under any pretext at any time is a serious loss of one's credibility. However, the US military is not unaware, but it still launched the Vietnam War under such a premise to show its muscles.
In the decades of the Vietnam War, how many ordinary people have become devils, but how many people can successfully change back in their future lives?
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