Platoon: Movie Analysis

Summary

The movie that I watched for this assignment was “Platoon”. It is about Chris Taylor an individual who left college to go into the military for infantry and combat. But since Taylor didn 't have any prior training, he risked his life and that of the rest of the troops when he gets injured during an Ambush. Throughout the film, Sargent Barnes and Taylor get in a dissagreeance and were threatening each other but through time Taylor showed the way he was thinking by attacking the Vietnamese village that they are staking out without understanding the grieving from the villagers. From the beginning of the film, body bags are loaded up in the airplane to bring them back home to their families to mourn, while at the end bodies aren

In the movie from the start, every member of the forces had their thoughts set on Chris Taylor since Chris seemed like a guy who is educated and rich and many of the troops who are out there to prove to people that they are not self centred but want to make themselves better and to show that since they are poor they are out there doing something for the good instead of bad. When we first think about going to serve on the forces, we automatically think that we are going to help out with the greatest good, help poorer countries and take down the enemies. Though throughout this film, it showed the complete opposite. When they were first sent out into Vietnam, Taylor ended up finding some Vietnamese in a hole under ground and forced them out and started shooting his rifle at their feet, then the troops started killing of one person at a time. Another ethical dilemma is when Junior slept while they were on shift and Barnes found out and told everyone “I would take an interest in seeing a person suffer if they slept on an ambush” but Junior blamed it all on Taylor when Taylor was awake the entire time. As well Barnes refused to give medical attention to Taylor which leads him to try everything that he can to stay alive. Over all throughout this film, everything was an ethical dilemma, to calling each other names, lying about who slept , killing individuals for no reason, smoking cannabis, and especially the fight between Taylor and Barnes where Barnes gets stabbed 7 times by

In conclusion, deontology and kantian ethics plays a major role in how individuals think while they go into a combat. Nobody thinks about the consequences of any of the actions they are taking and moral concepts go out the window. In the film, we can see this when Taylor becomes a coldblooded killer and kills individuals who have not done anything to him or the members of the platoon, as well the war will be over if the platoon run out of men which only happens once the men in the platoon get injured twice during the combat they return home, even if they are found in a body bag. This film showed how in the Vietnam war is a major event in the history of the USA military which allowed them to focus on a certain population and how they think around different individuals while out in