Oh, yeah!

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2003)

I saw AN in the theater on its original release. It wasn't until some years later that I read "Heart of Darkness," and I had had no idea that AN was in some ways based on this book. In fact, some years earlier than AN I had read a science fiction book by Robert Silverburg called "Downward to the Earth" and it, too, was based on "Heart of Darkness." In both cases the "Kurtz" character was named Kurtz. So you can imagine to forehead-slapping, and "oh, yeah"s when I finally read Conrad's masterpiece.
An interesting take on the moral confusion bred by warfare. Most everything else that needs to be said about AN has already been said.