How Does Oliver Stone Convey As The Evil Image Of War

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Bunny (played by Kevin Dillon), is a secondary character in PLATOON, masterly used by Oliver Stone to underline yet again the evil image of war. The contrast he accomplishes by displaying in front of the viewer Bunny, this almost childlike innocently looking young fellow, who no one could expected would express or shows the EVIL he displays in his sadistic and psychopathic outburst by savagely killing the crippled Vietnamese boy and his mother, it is short but mind striking exploration of what Oliver Stone wants to convey as a real message of war. It is beyond anything anyone could expect or imagine in traditional form of war

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