A Story about War, Law and Insanity

Rating: 10/10 (3 May 2020)

Apocalypse Now is one of the single most sad and enjoyable movies I've ever seen. This is a story set in the Vietnam War. The characters all feel like real people that were put into a horrifying situation. This feels so real because this actually did happen in real life. This film opens your eyes about the horror of war and what drives people insane. It also laughs at the idea of trying to call one action murder when everyone in this war was killing unnecessarily. This movie is shot beautifully and has some of the best action ever recorded. The focus is never on the action during action scenes, it's on the people. You'll often see bodies casually laying on the ground as if nobody is effected by it. This is extremely present when they meet the villain, but you realize there's no difference between the corpses at the Villain's temple and the corpses in the burned villages, the idea of calling murder of one justified and the murder of another evil is just not a line you can always determine in war. Every character does horrible things in this movie. Apocalypse Now has layers of depth and hidden metaphors that could be talked about for years.