This film has achieved both commercial and artistic achievements, so it can be regarded as a classic.
The perfect fusion of the author's film and the system; the narrative mode of road and journey, and the idea of film, broke the documentary style of Hollywood war films and entered the world of surrealism.
Close-up of the superimposed painting, worship of power, 5.1 screaming, Rembrandt lighting, not yet completed when the Palme d'Or.
Coppola said it was "not about the Vietnam War, it is the Vietnam War itself." I like this sentence very much, very pertinent.
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