1. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
2. Longitudinal comparison of recent movies: "Lost in Z City", "Yangtze River", "Dunkirk"
3. Cow Slaughter - End Colonel "Battleship Potemkin"
4. Hidden Buddha statues, distorted and inverted faces, roaring helicopters, thick smoke and fire, and superimposing.
5. There are many subjective shots of the captain, and the slow and psychedelic movement of the mirror externalizes his confusion, loss, and madness in an unbelievably crazy environment.
6. "This is how we live, we'll machine gun them in half and give them a Bundy. It's a lie, and the more I read it, the more I hate lies."
I can't understand their motives, Colonel Kilgore reminds me of Tommy in Goodfellas, their bloodthirsty madness is no different from eating, drinking, and sleeping. Are they like Raskolnikov's inner trial in Crime and Punishment?
7. A few shocking passages:
Colonel Kilgore orders the attack on the Vietnamese village, where he orders the soldiers to crank up the loudspeakers to play Wagner's "Valkyrie Ride" at full volume, mingled with the roar of warplanes, before the scene stops abruptly and turns to the serenity of a paradise Small courtyard.
This was followed by a dive of helicopters lined up to the village.
"I love the smell of Molotov cocktails at breakfast," says Kilgore, whose playful humor is frightening.
There is also a passage where the patrol boat stopped a search of fishing boats, and a little girl suddenly nervously rushed towards the soldiers searching for tin barrels. The nervous machine gunner opened fire, and a burst of frantic shooting killed the whole family. Turns out the girl just had to run to protect her puppy.
The mother had not died completely, the captain wanted to send her to the hospital for rescue, and the captain gave her a bullet, which ended her life.
You never know what you're going to face next, it could be a tiger rushing out of the jungle looking for a mango, a spear in a toy arrow, a meteor missile dancing with a purple smoke bomb.
It's not so much the war it's portrayed as how it reveals the truth we never knew, the Captain's series of surreal, chaotic experiences upstream down the jungle, bringing us close to the Colonel, able to understand the horror the Colonel found, understanding Why is he going crazy.
Lucky people can live a happy life in confusion, never knowing that they are only on the edge of an abyss.
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