The Horror

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 2009)

"The horror" in the movie is not just a dialog but it pretty much sums up the message of the film. It is easy to start a war on the issue of communism or terrorism but the price tag of the war is too costly when compared to the issue. When Brando's character asks sheen's character who he actually is, sheen replies by saying that he is just a soldier to which Brando says. "You're just an errand boy sent by the grocery clerks to collect the bill." In th film Col. Kurtz was not a rouge officer. He was just someone who had hung his boots on war as he could not bear the horrors of it. His unit followed him which caused an upset for some high ranked army people back in the U.S. War was important for them no matter how horrendous the outcome was. Apocalypse now is a complex film and probably the best by Francis Ford Coppola.