A very religious film, the whole film can be said to be a "Divine Comedy" discussing modernity to a certain extent.
The director is very good at using metaphors. In the process of the protagonist swimming upstream, he shows the changes of the US military over time in the Vietnam War. And the atmosphere of the whole set is becoming more and more dreamy. Finally, in the Holy Land, all the use of light and shadow and color matching should not appear in reality at all, but all of them are elements that have existed before, which belong to the war itself. The chaos of war is also the real madness brought about by war. In the end, after the male protagonist killed kurtz, the confused and firm eyes were the same as in "Blade Runner". He doesn't know if what he's doing is righteous or not, but he knows that no one is qualified to judge him.
The secret to deciphering the whole film is hidden in the title. When the protagonist accepted the task, the general said to him: "There are contradictions in people's hearts." People who are completely self-consistent are all lunatics. Hesitation and struggle represent the strength of the person themselves, and unscrupulous determination is an out-and-out demon.
In the boat that the protagonist sailed upstream, he read all of kurtz's life records and letters; when he left the holy place, the protagonist took kurtz's memoirs, so the believers who originally belonged to kurtz began to bow to the protagonist. Although the protagonist left decisively, it does not mean that he just carried out the mission of the military without any scruples. He is implementing his beliefs. He has mastered the power that belongs to him as a human being, and is no longer represented by the military of the system and the primitive. Bewitched by kurtz.
Thinking is the solution, and while there will be no real ultimate answers to the ongoing chaos and conflict in the modern world, thinking itself can provide us with a way out of the moment.
In the Holy Land, the protagonist underwent two baptisms: once when he first entered the Holy Land, he was pressed into the muddy water by kurtz's believers; once he jumped into the river before killing kurtz. In fact, when the movie is here, everything is very clear. The director gave his answer as an intellectual: everyone has to rely on themselves to control two forces, one is the power of civilization, and the other is the power of primitiveness. It is true that there will be conflicts, but the path explored in the conflict is meaningful to the individual.
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