Platoon - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A group of American soldiers watch a fellow soldier raping a small child, waiting their turn. (no rape or nudity is shown).

  We see a poster of a partially naked woman near a man's bed.

  A man is shown with a sculpture of a naked woman. This is easy to miss and it is not so obvious.

  A man's buttocks are shown.

  No sex scenes in this movie. Plenty of sexual banter.

• Violence

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  Overall this is a very violent movie, not just graphic violence but graphic in tone as well.

  American soldiers eventually start fighting each other, due to their frustration. One soldier grabs a knife and attempts to kill another soldier, but his men tells him to calm down.

  An American soldier's corpse is seen pinned to a tree with a moderate amount of blood visible.

  An American soldier holds a gun to a Vietnamese girl's head in front of her family, but another soldier punches him in the face and the two fight until a third soldier breaks them up. Both bleed.

  A man is blinded by shrapnel and covers his face screaming before a Vietnamese soldier comes up and unloads a gun on him.

  A man is wounded by an explosion nearby, another man cuts into him with a knife to rip the shrapnel out. The scene is very intense and graphic, although brief.

  Two men are blown to pieces after an airstrike is called on them.

  A man is shot a couple times, and he's seen attempting to stuff what look like his intestines back in his body briefly.

  This is a violent and disturbing war movie, with the the killing of the Vietcong citizens graphically depicted.

  The film implies that American troops raped villagers during a massacre.

• Profanity

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  159 f-words.

  Language is frequent in spurts rather than constant but it can be very aggressive.

  303 total of profanities.

  33 s-words.

• Intense Scenes

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  American troops murder and rape a village of old people and very young kids. They gangrape young children and torture the old folks. It is a long scene. After killing and raping, they decide to burn the village (along with all food and supplies) and leave.

  This film has a dark and graphic undertone, and most of the violence is realistic to things that have happened in Vietnam.

  A scene in which a Vietnamese villager is being tortured by soldiers, especially the conclusion, may be very disturbing to many viewers

  One theme of the film is that of some of the soldiers who have been there for as short as two weeks going insane with bloodlust and mental visions.

  The implied rape of a young Vietnamese girl is disturbing.