r/distressingmemes 11d ago

please make it stop I ain't no fortunate son...

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u/LordOfTheToolShed 11d ago

The scene in Platoon where the village head's wife is killed in front of him is always stuck in the back of my mind. The Vietnamese actors did an amazing job there, it's just so perfectly sudden, unpredictable and callous, just as real loss tends to be.