As a typical depiction of war scenes, focusing on calmly observing the war from the perspective of small people, Apocalypse uses the experience of the protagonist Captain along the way, as well as the final emotional conflict with the American traitor Colonel, clearly leading the audience to experience the kind of Vietnam War. Chaos, meaninglessness, injustice, absurdity, and even all war behaviors that extend to human beings are relatively substitutive and thus persuasive.
But this film makes people feel very reluctant. The film "The Thin Red Line" is almost the director's World War II version of "Apocalypse".
(1) Plot arrangement. The director pointed the meaninglessness of war directly to the struggle for "power", abandoned the relatively complete main story, and chose the perspective of several characters - the deserter protagonist, the company commander who disobeyed the military order, the soldier who has been missing his wife, and finally waited for his whole life. The aging colonel of war, etc., smashed these perspectives and edited them together, but all the director has been doing is constantly strengthening and proving his consistent point of view.
(2) Lens features. A large number of long-term close-ups, close-ups of characters' faces, close-ups of dilapidated environments, close-ups of beautiful natural environments, and the overly detailed language of the shots seem to lack certain guiding and guiding power, and become pure expressions and arguments. The proposition itself cannot be demonstrated like a mathematical formula.
(3) Theme kernel. The spiritual core that the director is trying to express is very clear, but the tone has been set from the beginning of the film. The narration from the perspective of God, the distorted, neurotic, and nihilistic atmosphere. It seems to be procrastinating, the rhythm seems to be procrastinating, it feels unnecessary, and it even reveals a hint of preaching in the end.
In short, I feel that the director is reflecting for the sake of reflection. He just needs a specific battle that happened in history to show it. In the end, he chose the Guadalcanal battle that no one has ever filmed to show, but is it really World War II that is criticizing and reflecting? Are you sure you're reflecting on World War II and not Vietnam? And through the Battle of Guadalcanal? Are you sure that even if your opponent sneaks up on your Pearl Harbor, you can continue to stay out of it and play that one-handed island politics?
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