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The paper explores the plot, characters, and the biographical background of Oliver Stone's film "Platoon". The paper explains that by realizing the intensive mix of history and personal accounts of Stone's own involvement in the war, he provides a crucial moral controversy about the nature of warfare. Furthermore, the paper discusses how he defines central moral problems with American imperialism, and how the lower class soldiers fighting the war were equally doomed as their equally poor Vietnamese enemies whom they fought.

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