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PLATOON Movie (1986) Clip - Letter To Grandma - Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Platoon (1986)
Written and Directed by Oliver Stone
Cast: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen
Rated R
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
Transcript
00:00 [HORSE NEIGHING]
00:03 Somebody once wrote, hell is the impossibility of reason.
00:08 That's what this place feels like, hell.
00:11 I hate it already, and it's only been a week.
00:13 Some goddamn week, Grandma.
00:16 The hardest thing I think I've ever done
00:18 is go on point three times this week.
00:21 I don't even know what I'm doing.
00:23 A gook could be standing three feet in front of me,
00:25 and I wouldn't know it.
00:27 I'm so tired.
00:29 We get up at 5 AM, hump all day, camper on four or five,
00:34 dig a foxhole, eat, then put out an all night ambush
00:37 or a three-man listening post in the jungle.
00:40 It's scary, because nobody tells me how to do anything,
00:42 because I'm new.
00:43 Nobody cares about the new guys.
00:45 They don't even want to know your name.
00:47 The unwritten rule is a new guy's life
00:49 isn't worth as much, because he hasn't put his time in yet.
00:52 And they say if you're going to get killed in the 'Nam,
00:55 it's better to get it in the first few weeks.
00:57 The logic being you don't suffer that much.
01:00 If you're lucky, you get to stay in the perimeter at night,
01:03 and then you pull a three-hour guard shift.
01:05 So maybe you sleep three, four hours a night,
01:07 but you don't really sleep.
01:08 I don't think I can keep this up for a year, Grandma.
01:19 I think I've made a big mistake coming here.
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