“I want to take the audience through an unprecedented experience of war and have them react as much as those who had gone through the war"- Francis Ford Coppola.
These lines pretty much sum the experience of “Apocalypse Now”. Starring Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L Willard in lead roles.
Captain Willard is back to Vietnam War after a trip to home, where he’s just had a divorce cause of the strain from the war. He knows that things will never be the same again for home as “home didn’t exist”.
Willard is commissioned to terminate a rebel officer, Colonel Kurtz. Colonel Kurtz has gone insane, is in deep jungle and considered God by the local tribe. It is a mission that officially does not exist.
Willard sets of in a boat up the Nung River on the way to Kurtz, with a crew of 5 people. Along the way he sees places that American are senselessly bombarding places and latter mopping up to quote Willard “offer a band-aid after ripping into half”
Along the way Willard keeps getting information about Kurtz history. Kurtz has been top of his class had served in Vietnam, was being groomed for post of General. Suddenly he returned to Vietnam again and won a major fight with help from locals. Willard put together what Kurtz had gone through, and begins to understand that war had pushed Kurtz to the edge of sanity- and beyond it.
Finally he reaches to Kurtz den where he finds his followers and his enemies’ bodies, their severed heads lying around. He meets the man and days later in a dramatic climax manages to butcher Kurtz, when the tribe is busy butchering a sacrificial animal.
The film has moments that will stay with you forever. It has great performances, complex storyline. The redux version is about 3 hours and 13 minutes long, but the movie indeed is about darkest side of war and indeed it does in mere 3 hours make us feel the true Horror of War.
For The Reel; Written By: Ali 'Rosebud' Naqvi
These lines pretty much sum the experience of “Apocalypse Now”. Starring Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L Willard in lead roles.
Captain Willard is back to Vietnam War after a trip to home, where he’s just had a divorce cause of the strain from the war. He knows that things will never be the same again for home as “home didn’t exist”.
Willard is commissioned to terminate a rebel officer, Colonel Kurtz. Colonel Kurtz has gone insane, is in deep jungle and considered God by the local tribe. It is a mission that officially does not exist.Willard sets of in a boat up the Nung River on the way to Kurtz, with a crew of 5 people. Along the way he sees places that American are senselessly bombarding places and latter mopping up to quote Willard “offer a band-aid after ripping into half”
Along the way Willard keeps getting information about Kurtz history. Kurtz has been top of his class had served in Vietnam, was being groomed for post of General. Suddenly he returned to Vietnam again and won a major fight with help from locals. Willard put together what Kurtz had gone through, and begins to understand that war had pushed Kurtz to the edge of sanity- and beyond it.
Finally he reaches to Kurtz den where he finds his followers and his enemies’ bodies, their severed heads lying around. He meets the man and days later in a dramatic climax manages to butcher Kurtz, when the tribe is busy butchering a sacrificial animal.
The film has moments that will stay with you forever. It has great performances, complex storyline. The redux version is about 3 hours and 13 minutes long, but the movie indeed is about darkest side of war and indeed it does in mere 3 hours make us feel the true Horror of War.
For The Reel; Written By: Ali 'Rosebud' Naqvi
2 comments:
The best movie to capture how vain war is, how hypocritical are the methods and what a fine line seperates right and wrong in war.
Highly recommended .......but hav patience and the film will reward you.......... but this is not everybody's cup of tea
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