Captain Willie is an excellent soldier, but while the war forged him, it also gave him an indelible mark. He can no longer live a normal life, he only longs to return to the war, and finally the next task has arrived. He was ordered to return to the Vietnam theater to perform a special mission: to find Colonel Guhuat who had unexpectedly defected, persuade him or kill him. On a thrilling and bizarre journey, the closer Willie gets to Colonel Gu, the more he understands and admires him. When he really saw Gu Huat, who had become the leader of a bizarre kingdom, Gu Huat hoped that Captain Willie would kill him. In the end Willie made Guhuat. The film ends with the singing of "fear" and "fear". A friend who has been watching "Apocalypse Now" for more than three hours with me said that everyone in the film is crazy except for Willie. In order to find a surfing beach, he led a helicopter group to slaughter Colonel Kobi in a village in an instant; dedicated his duty to the hypocritical captain who caused the manslaughter of a boat but tried to rescue him; holding the M16 but thinking about how to make delicious sauces. Little chefs; stinky kids who don't know what the war is; Lance, the young surfer who is also confused; even the prostitutes of Playboy; not to mention the charcoal Colonel Guhuat, everyone has a kind of madness. Think about it carefully. Isn't Willie's normality and calmness crazy? To stay rational in such a chaotic world, to complete a military mission step by step, and even to have a chance to become a god, but to leave rationally, isn't this another kind of madness?
Cavalry Colonel Gabby reminds me of the soldier looking for his arm in the artillery fire in "Saving Private Ryan". He escapes reality. In his eyes, there is no longer a war of blood and blood. All this is just a seaside vacation. Guhuat's spirit and will are higher than Gao Bi, but the more calm people go crazy, the more terrifying. Guhuat is desperate. At first he firmly believed in his own justice and ideals, and believed in the justice of war, but when he really experienced war and faced the evil of human nature and the dark heart, he went crazy. This is the madness caused by reason. We mentioned earlier. Crazy, he was sensible when he should be crazy, so I said he was crazy. Gu Huat is the state that a normal person should have. Both sides of the war made Gu Huat feel desperate. Gu Huat was disappointed with the United States and did not want to be an American soldier. Then he was disappointed with Vietnam and did not want to be a leader of the Vietnamese miscellaneous army. In the end, he was also disappointed in himself, and he decided not to be himself.
A while ago, Jiang Wen was a guest on Cui Yongyuan’s show. Jiang Wen said, “The reason why you want to shoot "The Sun Also Rises" is because people have many roles. You actually have been playing them unknowingly. They are now acting as the audience (referring to the audience). ), in fact, they are not an audience in essence. If you leave it there, he can only act as an audience. There are also playing sons, daughters, fathers, and lovers. In fact, these are all roles. The best (state) is to put these Take away all the characters, but when you want to take it off in your forties, you don’t know where to get it. Take one for one, take another for one, and when you don’t know where to take it off, you start to be scared. …We started from here to film "The Sun Also Rises". "
Guhuat did it. He put down everything, put down everything that makes people a person, and he got what Jiang Wen said." The best", complete freedom. He became a god, but after becoming a god, he found that he had fallen into a more desperate situation, absolute emptiness, the emptiness of God. Looking at the worshippers, he even wrote severely "Blow them all to death" in the notebook. When you become a god and be completely free, there is only boring. "Restriction produces power, and freedom leads to death." (Da Vinci) Guhuat has only one thing left to do, and that is death. But God cannot commit suicide, because of the spirit and will of God he cannot commit suicide. He only longed for death, longed for murder. Until Willie arrives.
There are thousands of anti-war themes. The reason why Coppola is Coppola is also because of the richness and layers of his usual themes. I don't think any part of these three hours is superfluous, including Willie's sex scenes with French women. Coppola dressed up this sordid and dirty story. Starting from a middle-class room in the United States, the hot Vietnam front-line command office, helicopters bombing Wagner surfboards in the rainforest, a tiger poking out of the jungle, laboring dandy prostitutes, fireworks-like artillery, and finally leading directly to the mystery A kingdom that is treacherous but full of alien cult beauty. This story is both an apocalypse and a fable. Although our modern society is decorated with science and colorful, but behind the splendor, there are countless desperate eyes, dark hearts, and confused and chaotic religions. In modern countries, you may have defeated Colonel Guthua, then you should hold the golden branches of science and prepare to live the life of guarding the sacred tree with fear.
Published "Watching Movies·Midnight Show" 2012, Issue 1
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