Post-Apocalyptic review

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2019)

Several days ago I watched this movie for the first time. The movie is a long lived classic, that I know as long as I live, but never was too interested in it. The version I have is is over 3 hours long. Currently holds #50 of 250 best movies with raiting 8.4. The review might content spoilers.
The movie has a slow pace narration, which feels even slower in director´s cut version. Though anyone who watched previous Coppola/Brando work - "Godfather" will find the pace comforting.
The music and the scenery ooze you into dark and terrorising atmosphere of war. There are no fun mments in this movie. Pure depretion. Either Americans bombard the natives or natives bomb Americans. Many scenes are filmed in the rain and moments of good weather are shown during thoughts of protagonist about his mission and war in itself. The lighter parts accompanied by presence of girls dancing or being naked, or guys talking about naked girls. That is understandable, the guys are soldiers and lacking female attention. But even those scenes are followed by unfortunate events in any way.
Yet again, the movie portraits the war greatly, in its unique way. The boat trip, so called adventure of the crew is full of struggles. Mostly moral. Author shows horror of war in his own manner. And then there is the scene of comming to native tribe by main characters.
Cambodians are portrayed as somewhat wild, uncivilized people, using straws, sticks and spears to kill Americans. That creates a dissonance as they live in ruins of great architectural value an aesthetic beauty.
We find out by some French photographer, that Cambodian tribe thinks of Colonel, as their father. Obviously, for the crew of newcomers he is crazy and evil. Willard plans to find the Colonel and finish the mission.
The main character is dragged by tribe members to Colonel, who asks him standart questions. And what he says after the place on Ohio river , the flower plantation, which leads to the speech about freedom.
That part is philosophic yet prosaic. They talk about Willard´s mission, if he is an assassin. So Willard responds to it, saying he is a soldier. Colonel says that he is neither. In my opinion that is the best scene in the movie.
Finally main character resolves his struggles by finnishing the mission. Or does he?
Overall it is a good movie. Slow paced during first half though. After watching this film I had a feeling as if I´ve read some epic novel.
How do I feel after watching the movie? How should I feel?
I definitely like cinematography, and the playing is good. It deals with psycological aspect of war and I enjoyed it as it is distinct to most of the war movies, that either show battles or spy operation.
I would like to say that it is great movie that is providing new perspective on war. As much as I enjoyed this movie during watching it, I will not rewatch it at all. No that is not that type of movie.