So I watched Apocalypse Now and I thought it was a pretty good movie. I had a long day and started to feel my eyes close at the beginning scenes but then it gets more captivating and I was shaken out of sleep after the first twenty minutes. One thing I didn’t like about the movie was the extreme violence and also the fact that I feel like I was feeling the tension that they had in the boat, which I guess shows that the movie as a well directed one because of this reason.
The movie is about a Captain who is sent towards Cambodia to assassinate a former Colonel who has set himself up as a godlike figure to a village of mixed rebels. As he and a crew taking him there experience the hardships and tension of the mission, they have to battle the insanity that is slowly trying to take over. Captain Willard experiences the same thing that changed the former Colonel and slowly starts to see from his point of view as the movie progresses.
I like the movie as well because it wasn’t completely just a war story but more psychological towards the end as well. Why do I say this? Look at the mental state of the crewmembers of the boat as they keep moving closer towards Brando’s Character. They start yelling at each other, doing crazy stuff, smoking more; they even kill a whole Vietnamese peasant boat crew because they were so high strung. A girl made a sudden move and “clean” got so freaked out he started shooting and they only realize it was to protect a dog. Brando’s character, Colonel Kurtz is completely messing with their heads too it seems and the more Captain Willard advances to him and finds out about him, the more he becomes like Kurtz. Oh and it was cool to see a young Laurence Fishburne.
Another aspect of the movie that I liked was the color choices. There is a scene where cook goes to look for mangoes and Captain Willard goes with. The scene is in all blue, the sky, the jungle, everything and I thought it was really cool. I seem to think this represents depression because in the scene after “Clean” dies, the next scene is filmed in all blue as well. During the war scene involving the bombing of the enemy base there are a medley of different colors, brown green, blue and others. The use of darkness was very critical during the movie because it symbolizes evil and insanity that slowly spreads around to everyone.
In conclusion, I thought the movie was really good and I will probably watch it again when I feel the mood to do so.
1 comment:
haha it seems like I wrote a lot of the same stuf down as you. In that boat scene where they kill those Cambodians with the puppy is definitely crazy. I was shocked and it was so sad!
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