Short Overview of Movie
I really liked this movie a lot. It was full of action and very good actors like Harrison Ford, Marl en Brando, and Mike Sheen. The movie was about a military captain named Willard (Sheen) that after coming home from a mission and drinking away his problems was asked to do another mission. Willard's mission was to find a general in Cambodia, that had abandoned the US military, named Kurtz(Brando) and stop him from making his radio broadcasts. Willard, after getting into some gun fights with his friend nicknamed Chef and Lance ends up finding Kurtz and his men. As they approached Kurtz hiding spot, Willard tells Chef to call in the order for an air strick on the location and leaves him behind. Willard gets detained by Kurtz people and Kurtz tells him that he is nothing but an arren boy. Then Kurtz holds Willard hostage and shows him that he had found Chef and had decapitated his head. After a while Kurtz let Willard free in his base and Willard ends up killing Kurtz with a machete. After this all of Kurtz men drop there weapons and Willard sails away.
Themes with in the movie
The first theme that is trying to be represented in this movie is life in Vietnam during the war. This movie shows the dark sides of the Vietnam war and how soldiers lose there lives. The use of shadows depicted the unknown/ununderstood things. An example of this was when Willard talked to Kurtz. Also there is a lighter twist on this movie as well because when the soldiers were not fighting they were water skiing and having fun. I think the message it was conveying at this time was that war is a negative thing with all the death around. Also at the same time that being a soldier is not a bad thing. Another message was that it is bad to go against your country. This is depicted by the outcome of Kurtz at the end of the movie.
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