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Are we ever really done seeing a movie? On ‘Platoon’ and memory

‘What do you think this movie is about?’

In this video essay, the US filmmaker Kevin B Lee recalls the shock of seeing, as a young film buff, the raw, violent and widely acclaimed Vietnam War film Platoon (1986) with his family in a San Francisco cinema. Recording outside the building that once housed that cinema, he details his harrowing time in the theatre and........

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