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Title: 'Apocalypse Now'
Release Year: 1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Lawrence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper.
Plot: Captain Willard has been given the mission of entering Vietnam wild jungles to find General Kurtz, who after an exemplary career has become insane and lives as the head of a tribe that worships him.
Review: After watching its huge length and the time it took to be shot I truly expected a soporific war-themed movie in which Francis Ford Coppola had wasted too much money. Nothing could further from reality: 'Apocalypse Now' is a great masterpiece and the biggest surprise as an unexpected revelation of this research project.
A rave story about the disastrous consequences of war, this is cinema at its most visionary and audacious level, a hallucinatory tale of self-destruction and a result of the psychological scarfs that the Vietnam war left in soldiers.
The technical perfection of the film accentuates the sensation of delirium and madness
This way we advance through a visually dazzling story and a country where fire and water are fused and each of them seems more lethal than the previous one. In a world region were madness has seized power and there's little sanity left, Sheen's character tries to find the lost General, while trying to understand the reason why he lost his way.
That last task is very difficult to accomplish, since when he locates him (in the heart of the jungle in an indigenous camp), all that is left is an insane despotic creature, who lives adored as a god and surrounded by a delirious infinity of massacred bodies and severed heads distributed all over the village. Kurtz has definitely lost his mind after so many years of irrational hate and murders and as he awaits for Willard to kill him he concludes this massive work of art with his final meaningful words: 'The Horror... The horror...'
A mentally insane Marlon Brando appears only in the last part of the film, but transformates it into a must-seen masterpiece about the rave consequences that war has in men
A rave story about the disastrous consequences of war, this is cinema at its most visionary and audacious level, a hallucinatory tale of self-destruction and a result of the psychological scarfs that the Vietnam war left in soldiers.
The technical perfection of the film accentuates the sensation of delirium and madness
This way we advance through a visually dazzling story and a country where fire and water are fused and each of them seems more lethal than the previous one. In a world region were madness has seized power and there's little sanity left, Sheen's character tries to find the lost General, while trying to understand the reason why he lost his way.
That last task is very difficult to accomplish, since when he locates him (in the heart of the jungle in an indigenous camp), all that is left is an insane despotic creature, who lives adored as a god and surrounded by a delirious infinity of massacred bodies and severed heads distributed all over the village. Kurtz has definitely lost his mind after so many years of irrational hate and murders and as he awaits for Willard to kill him he concludes this massive work of art with his final meaningful words: 'The Horror... The horror...'
A mentally insane Marlon Brando appears only in the last part of the film, but transformates it into a must-seen masterpiece about the rave consequences that war has in men
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