Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Platoon? Put your knowledge to
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Q. When Barnes says "I am reality," what theme is he exploring?
Vietnam
Friendship
Death
Versions of Reality
Q. Chris Taylor's concluding remark—"There are times since when I have felt like a child born of those two fathers"—illustrates what theme?
Family
Death
The Internet
Politics
Q. Lieutenant says to Barnes at one point that in front of the men he should give the orders. What theme is illustrated at that moment?
Politics
Art and Culture
Man and the Natural World
Innocence
Q. The first thing Chris Taylor sees on the tarmac in Vietnam is a group of body bags. That scene tells us that this film will be about what theme?
Music
Death
Awe and Amazement
Politics
Q. What theme does this remark illustrate? "We didn't fight the enemy. We fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us."
Women and Femininity
Men and Masculinity
Politics
War