Tracer in the jungle makes for horrific viewing. Taylor hits a Claymore and begins one of film's most appalling, enthralling war scenes. Then he sees the straw hats, the VC in the milky atmosphere, ghosts in the trees. When Taylor wakes the rain is ceased and yellow mist drapes languidly over crystal moonlight, leaves and twigs and solid silence rolled with water drops. And they all drift away in the end, soaked and exhausted. Claymores hang in the trees and the dark. Taylor blames stinking heat and insects for his inability to sleep while the others watch. Oliver Stone shows his squad locking and loading and slides them into a mosquito hole with bulbous eyes and dripping skin. One of the first action sequences in Platoon chronicles Private Chris Taylor's first night in the bush.
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