Assignment On Psychology and Physical

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The movie Platoon is one of the most brilliant movies created on the basis of the Vietnam
War that shook the world in terms of its destructive extent and how it portrayed the fatalities of
that war. This movie has shown all the things in terms of the psychological and physical toll that
it took on the soldiers (Lighter, 2015). Various movies have been attempted on this topic but this
movie has shown the ultimate success due to its acceptability.
There were major historical factors regarding this war situation between the two countries
United States and Vietnam. Platoon is regarded as a semi-autobiographical movie because of its
varied elements and how it dealt with the theme of the war in many ways. The entire story of the
film has been built on Stone, the infantryman of the United States military forces who was
deployed at Vietnam during the time of the war (Lighter, 2015).
Various experiences of Stone have been detailed in this movie since he was the main
person behind reflecting all the things that went out during the war. This movie is so well
depicted because it has all the elements of personal meaning for Stone by all the means. Some of
the elements in his character of leadership are showing off and over-directing (Freilach, 2016).
Both these things have created many problems and suppressed all the valiant efforts committed
by him in the movie.
The overall background of the film is completely political. Therefore, the political aspects
have been the most influential parts for the film but other moral and realistic aspects have also
been shown in this movie also. The war at Vietnam took the psychological toll of these soldiers
were immense since most of them were counting their days of when their duty period will be
over (Lighter, 2015). Rather, they will be free of their roles and go back to their motherland after
the victory of United States.