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Apr 27, AM. Anika books view quotes. Feb 20, PM. Joshua books view quotes. And if Platoon becomes an allegory, its central character pulled between father-figures saintly Willem Dafoe and Satanic Tom Berenger , the metaphor feels less willfully imposed today than it did in … although Dafoe occasionally seems too good to be true, especially in our first real glimpse of him, smiling welcomingly at Sheen from his hammock, and in a way that could be misinterpreted as seductive.
I am not making a case here for a deeper reading of this moment. That My Lai-like sequence rocked him, on an extremely personal level, and forced him to confront his own, long-cherished, ideas. This is not merely evidence of the power of film generally, but the power of this film specifically. I would counter that there is a classic dramatic unity to this central notion, and the only criticism I might make of it is that it may be a bit more explicitly stated than necessary.
McGinley gives an actorly performance. But then, McGinley is nearly always bad; his continued career is one of those, like that of Anthony Heald, which defy rational explanation. He does have one good moment, however: When his plea for respite is turned against him, his face carries a look of such stunned disbelief that the cosmic unfairness seems to have cracked his mind irreparably. One of the primary lessons the movies teach us is that you can be manipulated and still experience genuine emotion.
It was only when Stone upset the status quo by extending his critique of American values into areas of recent political turmoil and accepted falsehoods peddled by both the government and that very same press which had previously lauded him that he lost his position as media darling, unlikely ever to be regained. And the enemy was in us. Berenger and Dafoe: Two fathers. Sometimes, as in the recent Snowden it fairly pops off the screen.
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