there is not a single moment where i didn't feel absolutely disgusted with what i was seeing. They shoot and bomb villages that did absolutely nothing, they make racist jokes, they are cynical.
#Apocalypse now 1979 legendado full#
then minutes later an american who got shot on their leg gets a full shot, we're supposed to feel see and acknowledge american's pain. this director loves violence porn, i was not surprised at all to see scenes where viets were screaming out their lungs with their organs out only to be used as background.
#Apocalypse now 1979 legendado movie#
It is actually shocking how out of touch americans are and while i know this is a movie and it is only a representation of what happened, i also know americans are very stupid, racist and xenophobic. I've never liked movies about war seen from the point of view of americans, so starting this i was already expecting it to be three long, terrible hours. it was a lie, the more i saw of them the more i hated them. we'd cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a bandaid.
Wow, very meta, bro.It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. He’s directing the soldiers to move along and not look into the camera, while actually directing the movie itself. Goofy cameo for the director: It wasn’t needed, and you can argue it was goofy and self-indulgent, but I do appreciate the moment of director Francis Ford Coppola giving himself a cameo in the movie as a news/documentary director. None of this is digital artwork, and it wasn’t even models or miniatures either - it was all done for real, and that deserves a lot of respect. I can see why the shooting time and the budget swelled well beyond initial plans. The gunfights, the explosions, the gore - everything holds up and looks just as good as any digital creation today. To do it in the ‘70s is even more impressive. The action scenes are incredible, especially for their time: To achieve a movie this believable in its large-scale action presentation is no small feat. Indeed, ‘ the horror… the horror…’ is the point. That last one hit me the hardest.Įven the end scene wasn’t celebratory - it was simply a task that had to be done, and nobody took any particular joy or glory in completing it. Clean’s death while listening to an audio recording from his family. Several scenes in this movie are dramatic examples: the suicide grenade woman against the helicopter, the search of the Vietnamese boat that results in execution and the puppy discovery, and Mr. The movie is great in its presentation of the worst of warfare - not just death, not just pain, but the surprising and cruel timing and methods with which they strike.
War is hell, and rarely clean or glorious: The best scenes in the movie are actually the worst, as in the most brutal and the toughest to watch.
Note: for this review, I watched the original 1979 cut, not any of the alternate cuts. The journey is a long one, but especially for a film over 40 years old, the story and presentation’s impressiveness is undeniable.
THE SUMMARY: A young Army captain Martin Sheen is sent by river from Vietnam to Cambodia on a secret mission to execute a rogue special forces commander with excellent scenes of raw warfare and its human struggle along the way. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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