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Platoon (Soundtrack)

An extraordinary director Oliver Stone, top actors Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Depp, four Academy Awards: Direction, Film, Editing, Sound. Budd Carr executive producer for the soundtrack largely inspired by the '60s, eleven high-fidelity tracks that perfectly capture the image of the impeccable scenic execution.

1967, the young volunteer Chris (Sheen) arrives in Vietnam and experiences the horrors of a bloody war of unimaginable devastation and cruelty, massacres of children, women, and the elderly, murders among fellow American soldiers, and realizes there is another side to a war he once thought was just but is quite the opposite. Fear, madness, unparalleled violence. Two sergeants, Barnes (Berenger), the embodiment of evil, will kill Elias (Dafoe), the embodiment of good. Chris seeks to avenge the death of his friend Elias, killed by Barnes, and in a Vietcong attack on the marines' camp, Chris will kill Barnes and, due to his injuries, will be sent home with regrets and nostalgia for his comrades who remain in that infernal jungle.

"The Village," "Adagio For Strings" - The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - The delicacy of musical notes from violins and cellos shattering with the intrusions of bomb explosions that describe the cruel taste of violent death - "Tracks Of My Tears" - Smokey Robinson - a sunny voice in a moment of rest where the marines try between a dream and a drag of weed to escape the reality of the delirium called "Vietnam" - "Okie From Muskogee" - Merle Haggard - the desire to return home safely where a good drink always awaits, beautiful girls who make your head spin and thrilling rides on your purebred during the day and on your mythical Harley Davidson at night - "Hello, I Love You" - The Doors - what more significant track to escape from those thickets, the smell of death, burning, and blood, immersing oneself in a magical floating world called "The Doors" - "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane - drums in marching rhythm, electric guitars, and a sensual voice warming bodies in despair, regret, nostalgia, and collective delirium - "Barnes Shoots Elias" - The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - suspicious noises in the woods, the heart beats, and eyes are trained beyond the bushes, beyond the trench, sinister violins and oboes perfectly draw the real imaginary scene of the film - "Respect" - Aretha Franklin - men who have become wild animals, male bodies full of scars shaving with their pointed knives and engaging in strength and fitness contests with one-arm push-ups - "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding - a worn-out girlfriend's letter, a crumpled photograph from being looked at with lost gaze and a cigarette in the mouth while the companion makes fun showing it to others and calling him a sissy - "When A Man Loves A Woman" - Percy Sledge - the dream that all that nightmare ends, to be able to dance this wonderful slow with a delicate flower that will cling to your body forever to forget that so much hatred exists in such beauty - "Groovin'" - The Rascals - mouth accordion (fantastic), spring nightingales, tambourines, drums, and choirs bring you back to the normal life that belongs to you - "Adagio For Strings" - The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - sounds of helicopters arriving from afar, heart-smashing cellos, a native voice accompanying the final images and here we return to the sad reality of Vietnam, but now it's time to go home, helicopters take away the wounded and war dead, and Chris knows that nothing can make him forget what he saw and felt in his heart, every night he will wake up knowing it wasn't a dream but his reality.

Film and CD to keep in one's collection.