I think the film has two main lines.
The first is the picture of life brought by the war that Captain Willard showed during his journey upstream along the river. At the beginning, he was the US Airborne Division when he was downstream. Obviously, the behavior of the commander was a bit inconsistent. It's common sense, and the ship goes up slowly, as if it is a journey of exploration leading to the depths of people's hearts that can only be opened by war. People from all backgrounds in the film are involved, the US military itself, the behavior of mercenaries, the Viet Cong, civilians, and even the original colonizers, the French, which makes the film's re-examination of the Vietnam War more comprehensive and harmonious. Convincing. In war, no one can survive alone, everyone is mentally disorganized, almost crazy, and they all play the person who the French woman called "One that kills", "One that loves" The person is almost wiped out. The end of his journey that Willard has reached, which is the top end of this picture of life, is a group of indigenous people led by Colonel Kezzi. Colonel Kezzi was originally a promising military officer in the US military. The scene that I saw was a slap in the face of the Vietnam War, but Kezi's choice was a bit strange, anti-American, anti-Viet Cong, anti-war, and judging from the corpses everywhere, the end of the picture of life is the extremity of madness. , gained the opportunity to be enshrined as a god in the war, the ugly side of this kind of human nature "One that kills" will be magnified uncontrollably, but Colonel Kezi finally wanted Willard to kill him, it can be seen that Kezi He was really forced to be helpless in this environment. No one could escape the war's distortion of people. At least he still had a flash of kindness.
The sights along the way are truly ashamed.
The second main line is Willard's own process of trying to redeem himself and become independent along the way. At the beginning of the film, Willard's self-harming behavior in the hotel is what he did for himself to kill in the war under those conditions. This is a kind of "confession". If the audience thinks back carefully, they will find that Willard played the role of a bystander most of the time along the way. He tried hard to separate himself from the environment in which everyone was crazy. He shot and killed a seriously injured little Vietnamese girl. He was violent to the US military logistics dispatcher. He exchanged two barrels of oil for his people to have sex with a beautiful woman. He was fighting against the environment. It is so difficult to be alone in a war. Essence made his choice in the end, when he killed Colonel Kezzi and a gang of natives knelt down against him, I was thinking that someone who used to perform the same mission as Willard became Kezzi's subordinate, now if Wouldn't it surprise the U.S. military that Willard replaced Kez's position, maybe this film is also very meaningful, let people think about it. But the director obviously wants to create a hero with a "beautiful mind". Although this hero is so incomplete on his own, he is in the right direction after all. He was not pulled in by the black hole of war, and he soberly made the right decision among a group of lunatics. choose.
The "horrible" of war lies not only in its horror, but also in its destruction of human psychology and human nature. The "horrible" that Colonel Kezi said at the end was an explanation for what he had done, and it was the cry from the deepest heart of those who had read the war, suffered trauma and lies, but this cry was so pale and helpless.
Watching the film is like following the director's cruise ship "Vietnam War", a scene so shocking, immersive, and followed the protagonist to come out clean.
Two words to cover it up: Profound!
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