He doesn't kill any civilians during the raid on the village, he doesn't rape any women, and even though he wants to kill Barnes, he settles for starting a fight with him in the Underground. This all changes at the eleventh hour, when Taylor goes from being a morally upright fella to its opposite: a guy who is just as tainted as Barnes, Bunny, and all the rest of the "bad" guys.
The symbolism is clear: even the morally upright, levelheaded Chris Taylor is not immune to plagues of a terrible war. Earlier in the film, Rhah mentions that Barnes can't be killed, "the only one who can kill Barnes… is Barnes.
Taylor's killing of Barnes is kind of egregious on another level, too, which brings us to the second part of the ending: Taylor's departure from the battlefield and from Vietnam in a helicopter.
In his final narration, he describes himself as a son of two "fathers," Barnes and Elias. If Barnes is one of Taylor's fathers, then Taylor has just killed his father in what amounts to a 20th-century Oedipal conflict.
Before, Barnes looked Elias in the eye and shot him. Now, Taylor looms over a fallen comrade, Barnes who requests a medic , and kills him. When Taylor discovers Barnes in Platoon , both men aren't doing well after the NVA attack and the subsequent air raid.
Fortunately for Sheen's character, though, he can at least walk. Stone positions his hero directly over the crawling and severely-injured staff sergeant, and makes the audience wonder if Taylor will actually shoot Barnes in the back. When Berenger's character rolls over on his back and demands a medic, he simultaneously shows his bravery along with an attitude that unnerves Taylor. For example, look at how Taylor reacts when Berenger says "Go on, boy" - it's like he's received all the confirmation he needs to get payback for Elias.
This moment is Taylor reclaiming his own identity and removing Barnes' insidious influence. Taylor doesn't kill Barnes solely for retribution or because the staff sergeant appears to be evil, but rather because of something more fundamentally tied to his character arc. After Taylor fires off three shots, he pauses and looks at his surroundings, with the grey of the smoking gun contrasting with the lush green jungle. There's nature and technology, free will and fate - that place had changed him and in killing Barnes, he acknowledges as much, if only to break the spell.
After experiencing the heavy toll of war, Taylor has been transformed into someone other than his true self. In Platoon , Stone suggests that Taylor kills Barnes because of various factors, with the most obvious being that Taylor himself is now an unforgiving killer, a man forced to extremes in the heat of war. After the final battle in Platoon on Netflix , Stone once again contrasts Taylor's bravery with the questionable decisions of a fellow soldier.
Francis - portrayed by Living Colour frontman Corey Glover - emerges from a foxhole and correctly determines that help is indeed on the way. But rather than checking on the injured, Francis deliberately plunges a knife into his leg. Did he try to kill himself? Separate from membership , this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site.
You can unsubscribe at any time. In the sequence where Sgt Elias is charging the VC with his M16 near when he dies there is a shot when the camera rolls through the jungle and you can see a cameraman behind a tree. Director Oliver Stone claimed that the lead character of Chris was largely autobiographical and mirrored many of Stone's own experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.
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Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers. Chris Taylor has arrived in Vietnam in the year Initially, he is mostly isolated from the rest of his platoon given that he is new to the unit.
Over time, after witnessing combat and getting wounded, Taylor becomes more integrated into his unit.
At the same time, tensions emerge following a massacre conducted by members of the platoon and Taylor finds himself caught in the crossfire. Sign In.
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