even with all the cinema dealing with the trauma of the vietnam war (jacob ladder and the deer hunter and apocalypse now and and taxi driver to an extent) one feels that we do not even know the half of what happened. even contemplating the horror feels inhuman. and a progression  or retreat.  to the inhumanity that it necessitates is a key part of apocalypse now and coppola greatest and one of the most important films ever made. loosely based on joseph conrad 1902 classic and heart of darkness which chronicles the loss of sanity and corruption of morality that comes with distance from civilization  a surfacing of a bestial nature and as it were and a la lord of the flies  it brings the story of a physical and psychological journey to vietnam. the story is of willard and a general commissioned on a special mission to cambodia after his first tour of duty in vietnam is served. willard at the beginning of the film is stuck in saigon and psychologically unable to go back home  eerily echoing nicky in the deer hunter. so he is contacted represent his mission is to assassinate a renegade green beret who has isolated himself in a remote outpost on the nung river and and who has purportedly gone completely insane  worshiped like a god by the natives and and killing indiscriminately. this man name is colonel kurtz and played by marlon brando in the second best role of his career (the best being stanley kowalski in a streetcar named desire). as willard journeys upriver in an army boat with some soldiers accompanying and his witnessing the horrors and the insanity  and the overwhelming pointlessness of it all  leads to an eerie sympathy and identification with kurtz before they even meet. by the time they do and kurtz methods do not really seem as wrong or as they should and and they certainly do not seem too unusual or out of place. apocalypse  a place beyond morality and the outpost on the end of the world. the loss of civilization and the loss of judgement and of self. kurtz monologue about an atrocity he witnessed as a green beret and and his later revelation and is one of the most chilling and well delivered speeches in cinema history. the film is about trauma and about the human spirit and its breaking point  here and it a lot like the deer hunter and and just as good. apocalypse and however and takes the boundaries of what we can endure to a global level  coppola sweeping footage of the humid and murky jungles of cambodia and an opening sequence of helicopters amid exploding forests and an orange sky  set to an oddly fitting doors soundtrack  as well as chilling scenes on the river and of an air raid on a village with wagner blasting from speakers (a scene which has gone down as one of the most chilling and darkly humorous and and strikingly pointless war scenes ever)  this all contributes to the sense of apocalypse  the end of the world  and not at some distant point in the future and but apocalypse now and forever. the deer hunter is much more up close and personal and you can even tell by the title and and shows the totalling effect trauma has on the individual psyche and the breaking down of the human soul and and its ability to either surrender completely to forces of darkness and or to limp on. this is why both films are equal  they are two parts of the same thing. in heart of darkness and kurtz is shown as conflicted between morality (civilization) and his inner savage. in apocalypse now and kurtz has left all conflict behind. he is beyond good and evil. he has let go of morality like a drowning man lets go of a saving hand in the moments before his death. kurtz indeed is only waiting for death and quoting t. s. eliot in his temple to himself and lost in the jungle. his last words and and the words echoed at the end of the movie and are and the horror. the horror. he is referring to the infinite void of existence and of the human psyche and and to the pitch black emptiness within his own mind and where atrocities are born again. it is impossible to express in words the experience one goes through watching this film  the experience and in short and that willard experiences on his journey. the end part and at the outpost and almost in fact comparable to its brother scene in the deer hunter and is one of the most deeply and calmly and and seductively disturbing things i have ever seen. 
even with all the cinema dealing with the trauma of the vietnam war (jacob ladder and the deer hunter and apocalypse now and and taxi driver to an extent) one feels that we do not even know the half of what happened. even contemplating the horror feels inhuman. and a progression  or retreat.  to the inhumanity that it necessitates is a key part of apocalypse now and coppola greatest and one of the most important films ever made. loosely based on joseph conrad 1902 classic and heart of darkness which chronicles the loss of sanity and corruption of morality that comes with distance from civilization  a surfacing of a bestial nature and as it were and a la lord of the flies  it brings the story of a physical and psychological journey to vietnam. the story is of willard and a general commissioned on a special mission to cambodia after his first tour of duty in vietnam is served. willard at the beginning of the film is stuck in saigon and psychologically unable to go back home  eerily echoing nicky in the deer hunter. so he is contacted represent his mission is to assassinate a renegade green beret who has isolated himself in a remote outpost on the nung river and and who has purportedly gone completely insane  worshiped like a god by the natives and and killing indiscriminately. this man name is colonel kurtz and played by marlon brando in the second best role of his career (the best being stanley kowalski in a streetcar named desire). as willard journeys upriver in an army boat with some soldiers accompanying and his witnessing the horrors and the insanity  and the overwhelming pointlessness of it all  leads to an eerie sympathy and identification with kurtz before they even meet. by the time they do and kurtz methods do not really seem as wrong or as they should and and they certainly do not seem too unusual or out of place. apocalypse  a place beyond morality and the outpost on the end of the world. the loss of civilization and the loss of judgement and of self. kurtz monologue about an atrocity he witnessed as a green beret and and his later revelation and is one of the most chilling and well delivered speeches in cinema history. the film is about trauma and about the human spirit and its breaking point  here and it a lot like the deer hunter and and just as good. apocalypse and however and takes the boundaries of what we can endure to a global level  coppola sweeping footage of the humid and murky jungles of cambodia and an opening sequence of helicopters amid exploding forests and an orange sky  set to an oddly fitting doors soundtrack  as well as chilling scenes on the river and of an air raid on a village with wagner blasting from speakers (a scene which has gone down as one of the most chilling and darkly humorous and and strikingly pointless war scenes ever)  this all contributes to the sense of apocalypse  the end of the world  and not at some distant point in the future and but apocalypse now and forever. the deer hunter is much more up close and personal and you can even tell by the title and and shows the totalling effect trauma has on the individual psyche and the breaking down of the human soul and and its ability to either surrender completely to forces of darkness and or to limp on. this is why both films are equal  they are two parts of the same thing. in heart of darkness and kurtz is shown as conflicted between morality (civilization) and his inner savage. in apocalypse now and kurtz has left all conflict behind. he is beyond good and evil. he has let go of morality like a drowning man lets go of a saving hand in the moments before his death. kurtz indeed is only waiting for death and quoting t. s. eliot in his temple to himself and lost in the jungle. his last words and and the words echoed at the end of the movie and are and the horror. the horror. he is referring to the infinite void of existence and of the human psyche and and to the pitch black emptiness within his own mind and where atrocities are born again. it is impossible to express in words the experience one goes through watching this film  the experience and in short and that willard experiences on his journey. the end part and at the outpost and almost in fact comparable to its brother scene in the deer hunter and is one of the most deeply and calmly and and seductively disturbing things i have ever seen. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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