Apocalype Now Overview and Themes
Apocalypse Now is movie about a Vietnam soldier with a checkered past, and who goes on an Odyssey like mission to “terminate with extreme prejudice “ an American army Colonel. Who has gone insane in the Cambodian jungle. It is not a movie that glorifies the struggle between righteous American’s democracy versus an evil communist Vietnamese. In Apocalypse Now the line between good and evil is blurred. Apocalypse is a reflection of the anti-imperial and the general anti-war movement of the era, and that is reflected in others movies like Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Deer Hunter all display the unsavory side of the Vietnam War. The anti-war feelings displayed in these movies are results of American’s negative stigma attached to the war, because of stories of people like John Kelley. There are no undertones that depict romanticized ideals of war in which there are clear-cut heroes and villains like in the World War Two epic Patton. Almost every scene explains more reasons why the Vietnam War was a mistake and questions whether Americans really were the “good guys.” “This film isn’t about the Vietnam War. It is the Vietnam War,” Francis Ford Coppola in Heart of Darkness: A Filmmake
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