Apocalypse Now

Kailyn 2021-10-13 13:07:34

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

    2020.7.28 SIFF was re-screened ten years later and found that it was a more personal movie than imagined. Use 180 minutes to describe the madness. Full of oracles, but also completely anti-climax.

  • Garett 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    Rewatched on the big screen after ten years. A history of war, religion, and spirituality, all condensed into the half-revealed and half-hidden face of the last captain. the one that kills/the one that loves.

Apocalypse Now quotes

  • Kilgore: [recorded message playing from speakers on helicopters flying overhead] I will not hurt or harm you. Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board and I like it. You know how hard it is to find a board you like.

  • Kurtz: Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from the opinion of others... even the opinions of yourself?