Embracing the extremes of human conflict and returning as a wounded titan brandishing truth and compassion - this is the experience Oliver Stone injected into the world in 1986 with the release of Platoon. The beauty and power helped regenerate a nation staggered by tragedy. A poet had tasted battle and loved to hammer the experience of transcendent work of art. As a narrative about warriors writhing in the emptiness of rhetorical purpose, Platoon sweeps us along its deep waters as surely as an incarnation buried in the unconscious.