What exactly is this movie about? Mainstream anti-war movies generally start from the perspective of the injustice of war and the destruction of human nature and social ethics by war, while the theme of Apocalypse Now is the opposite. The theme conveyed by the film is that human nature is inherently cruel and bloodthirsty. Killing, like love and other desires, is a primordial instinct imprinted in human genes, an indelible impulse of human beings as large mammals. The so-called "civilization" is to limit this primitive instinct through the theory of moral good and evil. And the lies and hypocrisy of "civilized society" repeatedly emphasized in the movie from the protagonist and Colonel Coates, that is, people in "civilized society" are not superior to those in "uncivilized society", they also have the urge and instinct to kill, but they Rationalized excuses were made for it. For GIs, that excuse was "liberal democracy." It's like in the P Club game, you need to choose a reason for declaring war, but in fact the reasons are nonsense, you are TMD wanting to fight [Miaoah][Miaoah][Miaoah] When human beings are deeply involved in war In this hell, when faced with an existential crisis, American soldiers killed indiscriminately like the Vietnamese. However, in the process of killing these Americans from a "civilized society", they also fell into what Colonel Coates called "moral terror", that is, the irreconcilable conflict between their own exposed killing nature and moral good and evil. Under this psychological horror, some people become confused, some people become numb, and others are completely mad. Colonel Coates saw through this truth, and finally chose to be in the company of "terror", gave up his identity as a "civilized man", and entered the jungle to choose to become a god of primitive worship. But even so, he still couldn't get rid of the judgment of good and evil deep in his heart, fell into even greater contradictions and despair, and finally begged the protagonist to kill him to free him, leaving behind "horror, horror". Last words. From this point of view, the film is not really an anti-war film, its purpose is to expose the deep-rooted darkness in people's hearts. The war is nothing but a stage and an excuse to expose this darkness. What the movie reflects is exactly the main theme of the original novel Heart of Darkness: in the colonial era of the 19th century, while the Western colonists conquered the "barbarism" with their "civilization", the "civilized man" also suffered from the "barbaric society". "The temptation. In the process of "barbarians" gradually becoming "civilized", will there also be "civilized" eager to become "barbarians"?
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