KONFLIK BATIN YANG DIALAMI TOKOH UTAMA CHRIS TAYLOR DALAM FILM PLATOON

Abstract

Wars are destructive actions. One of the damages produced by wars is unbalanced mental. Oliver Stone as the director of platoon and as a combat action in Vietnam War intended to bring unbalanced mental to its audience. Platoon is an anti-war movie that brings us how horrible, insane and painful wars are through its characters, including Chris Taylor as the main character. This film explains us to understand more of the effects of wars on their combatants and describes stress or mental conflicts that force the main character. To analyze this film, the writer uses an exponential approach. The exponential approach used is an approach to a character, studying the main character in the film. The next approach is literary psychology that uses Sigmund Freud’s personality theory. From his theory we can be examine the psychological condition that flare up with mind depression during war. The writer uses the Sigmund Freud’s personality theory to study the process and the result of somebody’s emotion pressure. Working through the analysis, the writer concludes the conclusion that human emotion which is pressured by the condition of life or die and unclear mission can make the disruption through the mind and can make a new certain attitude that make a new personality. The new personality of a main character Taylor in this film affects the conflict of id, ego, and super ego.