Jonesy9906753
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any here? i would suspect there is.
Agent Spalko said:
RocketSledFight said:I would love a poster of that image.
Whoa. Do we know what was in it?The Man said:Empire magazine ran an article a while back about the mythical five-hour cut. Fascinating...
agentsands77 said:Whoa. Do we know what was in it?
Montana Smith said:The finest film about the insanity of war ever made?
It feels that way after having just watched Apocalypse Now Redux.
Though I do come to this film with a bias. I was an instant fan of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which felt like the greatest novella ever written.
The battle between civilization and savagery, sanity and madness, in which the lines and sides are blurred, and the protective surface is thin enough to fall through at any moment. Stay on the boat or test oneself against the darkness.
The film ends before Willard returns to 'civilization'. But does he, like Marlow, protect Kurtz' loved ones from the truth? Does he protect those he encounters from the brutal knowledge? Does he even preserve his own sanity? Or end up like the characters in The Deer Hunter?
The film, even at 3 hours and 14 minutes, is compelling throughout.