The Left and the Heart of Darkness

Vincenzo 2022-03-22 09:01:02

Because Coppola intends to tell a story from a dark center, this is not a story of the Vietnam War. The intertextual effect the director wants to achieve is that, compared with the colonial activities of the Great Britain’s Sunless Empire in the Congo in the nineteenth century, the American war in Vietnam is exactly the same as the old imperialist colonial nature. Conrad’s "The Center of Darkness" In ", the British Kutz abandoned the so-called "civilization" during the colonization of the Congo, voluntarily demoted to a "barbarian", and was regarded as a god by the indigenous people, while the United States, a young country that claims to have no historical haze of imperialism, is still affected by it. Evil blood in the hands. Therefore, the anti-Vietnam War only became a young career in the United States in the 1960s. Just like the confused generation during the First World War, the younger generation dreamed of the mission of patriotism, but in the end discovered that they were accomplices to imperialism, so this country began to bear the original sin, and the United States was no longer a pure Garden of Eden. People no longer turn a blind eye to the original sin committed against the Indians). So Hemingway and Fitzgerald returned to Europe, gathered in France, and re-experienced the exquisite old world in various salons in Paris. The young people during the Vietnam War also found that the call of government patriotism was also the soul of the remnants of imperialism. So disillusioned and rebellious. This time their gaze is still Paris, which is a more intense "May Storm." The students there even took Chairman Mao's quotations to fight the government and the army fiercely.
If "Forrest Gump" is an American right-wing propaganda film, because it indeed still promotes America's justice, honor and unquestionable tradition, while "Apocalypse Now" is the reproduction of the global left turn in the 1960s. It Radical and adolescent hormones criticize the old system that it thinks is rotten, but this is not the real Vietnam War, it is the Vietnam War under the ideology, this is understandable, who can transcend ideology to obtain a zero-degree perspective?

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Extended Reading
  • Clarissa 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    When Kurtz appears on the screen as a real person, is the film rebuilding the history of the Vietnam War and even the legitimacy of human civilization? In the process of approaching Kurtz, Willard reshaped Kurtz's meaning to himself in the form of words. Is this the establishment of a belief or an imagination of temptation? In the end, Kurtz was executed by a passivated human weapon. The fall of the "god" is the same as the birth. Does the absence of the picture lead us to believe in another "spectacle" that cannot be presented? Does the nihility revealed by the dissolving lens that constantly appear in the movie belong to the same kind of "nihility" described by US military officers? How does this vast rainforest compliment the mutual imagination of the East and the West at that time and now? When watching this movie, can the audience withstand the reverse stare of the character? Where should the answer be found?

  • Lucinda 2021-10-20 18:58:46

    Coppola: "The Godfather" adopts a classical style. Each shot is like a brick in the overall structure of the scene, and the scene becomes a beautiful brick wall design. Gordon Willis believes that a shot should not be all-encompassing , Otherwise there is no reason to switch to another lens. On the other hand, in "Apocalypse Now", Vittorio Storaro expects the lens to be like a moving penholder, sliding from an image element to an element. In the end I turned to Sophia Explain to myself, the lens can be like a word (the former)...but it can also be like a sentence (the latter).” ("Future Movie")

Apocalypse Now quotes

  • AFRS Announcer: [radio announcer] And now here's another blast from the past coming out to Big Cind, all alone in the men's room out there with the First Battalion, Thirty-fifth Infantry, and dedicated by the fire team at An Khe to their groupie CO, Fred the Head: The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction.

  • Willard: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.