Apocalypse Now.

Jagadeesh J
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

For me movies were more like entertainment then i saw Apocalypse now. It was not the same after. It was the first time i haven’t judged a movie with my limited knowledge. It opened up new way of thinking and changed the thought process of understanding the piece of art, first i think it’s about the WAR. Then i found moral conflict of human psyche influenced by violence. It didn’t end up there and i started to watch it again and again. The great thing about this movie is it’s imperfection and it never try to be perfect. Yes it is incomplete like our lives that’s why i started to like it more and more.

Captain Willard search for Colonel Kurtz is mere function of his job. Willard questions his sanity when he started to explore that world and experience the madness of reality. The more he wants to know about Colonel the more he sees the darkness but he never realizes how he gonna end up. When he reaches a place where sanity is a myth, he shuts his way of understanding and completely consumed by darkness. Colonel found a great deal of himself in Willard and he thinks he is the right person to pass on his darkness. Willard lost his moral ,social and personal aspect of judging the world. And he leaves the place with heart of darkness.

Conrad’s “Heart of darkness” is depiction of insanity of pretentious moral world. Production houses were reclusive about this project, but Copolla challenged himself by directing this project with his own money with known dangers of it. Apocalypse Now is not a movie to understand and judge instead it’s a piece of art to watch and mesmerize.

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I still remember the way it starts with Doors song “This is the end, beautiful friend” and the last words of Colonel Kurtz “The Horror… The Horror” right before his last breath.

Jagadeesh J

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” ― Walt Whitman

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