Because of nothingness, so absurd

Dominic 2022-03-21 09:01:02

When many people evaluate the film "Apocalypse Now", they only go deep into the levels of war, lies, violence, and the darkness of human nature, but I only see the loneliness and absurdity of life, and nothingness from it. Because of nothingness, so absurd.

Lies are everywhere, all the time. It would be too hypocritical to feel that life is nothing but a lie. After all, lies still have a criterion for judgment. The true nihility is that everything can be right or wrong.

Man is an animal of values ​​and standards. Without values ​​and standards, life is nothing but nothingness. Because of the same or different value demands, human beings are the same. And the madness of war can subvert all the values, and even the most primitive fears become numb and emptiness in the end.

I know Marlon Brando is not crazy, he is just dying. He died in the obedience and worship of everyone, and died in easy violence and killing. He chanted poems in the fog of backlighting and sidelights, and the lonely shadow was heartbreaking. Nothingness and loneliness have already eroded his soul. Maybe he didn't kill the captain just to find a talker, maybe just to give himself a last chance to face the fear. However, he was no longer afraid of death. He said "horror" twice before he died. It should be "hollow".

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Extended Reading
  • Jamir 2021-10-20 18:59:13

    Dreaming of a snail crawling on the edge of a razor, calling the Viet Cong Charlie, riding a female warrior in a helicopter, colored smoke bombs, and burning gasoline in the morning are the taste of victory, a chef encounters a jungle tiger, a Vietnamese fisher girl who died saving a dog, "Like this egg, the white (white people) flows away, and the yolk is still there.", Cambodian jungles are self-sufficient and black cows with their necks cut off, eyes under the oil paint in the shadows, Fighting for the biggest noting.

  • Nora 2021-10-20 18:58:55

    The photography is awesome, the sound effects are awesome, and all kinds of other are awesome, but it’s only strange that this kind of movie will be watched by the audience.

Apocalypse Now quotes

  • Colonel Kilgore: [Explaining why the helicopters play music during air assaults] We use Wagner. It scares the shit out of the slopes. My boys love it!

  • Willard: Hey soldier, do you know who's in command here?

    Soldier: Ain't you?