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The Russian (Belarus) version of, 'Platoon'


It's about time the Russians and Belarus have their own movie version of "Platoon". There's even a semblence of, "Full Metal Jacket" here. The Germans long ago made theirs with, "Stalingrad" (2001). These are movies that depict a nation's young men, with all their varied hometown pasts, loves and dislikes, dreams, hopes, and fears, talents and human flaws, all thrown together in a maelstrom of war and violence, struggling to survive amidst the most primal and primitive conditions, coping to understand a war for which they have little understanding and even less sympathy, but are powerless to affect it except to survive, which many don't. In a way, it's almost unavoidable for movies like PLATOON, STALINGRAD, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, now, 9TH COMPANy, to be near pornographic in their particularly graphic and gruesome depiction of primal human violence, magnified by the advancement of weapons technology. It's like wathing a war movie version of, 'Saw', and 'Hostel'. Just maintain your perspective and comprehension that what these movies are really trying to accomplish with the viewers is a kind of noble, psychological operant conditioning. By innundating us with extremely repulsive war images, the hope is that future generations will be less likely to wage war.

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Good post. I really enjoyed how they showed Soviet soldiers enduring some of the same hardships as American soldiers did in Vietnam. It reminded me a lot of 'Hamburger Hill'...where soldiers fight for and hold a piece of territory of no strategic value.

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Reminded me more of Full Metal Jacket.

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