Another way of seeing "Apocalypse now"

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 1999)

This movie is one of the best war movies I have ever watched, and I really watched many war movies. There's a close resemblance with "Apocalypse Now" in the way the war is treated. While most movies show stupid plots and a lot of graphical violence, this movie is very intimate and shows how one feels war in one's soul. This movie, unlike most war movies protagonized by Americans, does not talk about "patriotism", "honor" and other nonsense idiots often relate to war. Actually, this movie is about humankind, it does not condemn war, nor does it condemn the United States's eternal search for war. The reasons for WWII are not even mentioned. This is a generic movie about humankind and evil, not WWII, and it's very good at that. The Japanese are not treated as devils against the good American boys: both sides are equal. You will probably be a bit confused about the characters, who is who, etc. I think this is totally intentional, and further enhances this terrific war movie - war is horror. The movie is long, but it could have been twice as long and it would still be great. If you care about the effects of war in human mind and humankind, watch this movie. If you are proud of war, go watch some of the several blockbuster movies that treat war as tolerable and treat the assassins human become as heroes. You know what blockbusters I'm talking about.