I typically don’t watch war movies, but I have always wanted to watch Platoon ever since I started learning about the Vietnam War, and so finally, I watched it.

I genuinely don’t know how to put this movie into words. The easiest way to describe it? It was phenomenal.

I’ve heard many movies about the Vietnam War are often critical and lack glamorization compared to other real-life inspired war movies (reasonably so). This movie’s motivation is no different, but the…