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Few war movies can ever get my attention much less get me to watch one all the way through. But Apocalypse Now sets itself different from the typical war film that was until the seventies, American war propoganda that showed heroic Americans in action.
Charlie Sheen has been given a new assignment. To go up a Vietnamese river and retrieve an officer who suddenly they lost all contact with. Sheen and his small crew of rookies begin the long track as they all wonder what the Vietnam War was really all about.
Director Francis Ford Coppola shows how everyone quickly loses thier humanity when out in the dense jungles away from home. They meet a military officer who decides to attack a Vietnamese village just so he can go surfing on their beach. As they creep down the river, the suspense slowly builds and then suddenly explodes with gunfire. They open fire into the trees, not knowing who is hitting them or where they are.
Everyone knows that the Vietname War was a mistake. Here is a film that proves it. As the movie draws nearer to it's end, we wonder what Sheen is going to do once he accomplishes his objective. For any man ravaged by war, and made insane by the endless rampage of blood, it's no wonder that this movie is often referred by it's original name, Heart of Darkness.
p.c.
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