Wow armageddon (Apocalypse Now Redux (DVD))

Member Name: derpigeon

Product:	Apocalypse Now Redux (DVD)
Date:	20/11/00 (62 review reads)
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Advantages: just raw genius

Disadvantages: very raw, somewhat overpowering

Having studied the film for a piece of coursework, I know the inside, the outside, and the Backside of this film.
It contains the turbulent journey of an American army officer up a small river in Vietnam, into Cambodia, where he is to "terminate, with extreme prejudice" Colonel Walter Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando
The film is a masterpiece. Each scene contains a barrage of imagery so complex and overwhelming as to stimulate the audience, we see not only the state of the American Army, but also a glance into the mindset of man. Kurtz had lost control; he had given into "The Horror" and was now living, or rather dying of malaria, as the God of a small tribe. The turning point in Kurtz' mind comes when he returns to a village to find that all the children he had inoculated had had their arms cut off. The brutal imagery of this thought goes along way to summing up Americas unwelcome involvement.
In watching martin Sheens' journey into madness we see the oppression and squalor that human descends into in extreme situations.
By the time he comes face to face with Kurtz the desire to carry out his orders has gone, he simply wants an end, a way out, which is exactly what Kurtz wants, he welcomes death, longs for it, and that is precisely what he gets, as a bull is sacrificed by the natives Kurtz is cut down, and sheen leaves the scene.
That is not however the end of the film. There is one version, now rarely shown in which after the killing martin Sheen radios his base and gives them the position of Kurtz' village, they then ask for his position, and we see his small boat consumed in fire, as he is napalmed by his own side.

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