'Views of War in Apocalypse Now'

'The film, Apocalpyse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, illustrates the psychologically damaging effectuate of the Vietnam war. As the fiction progresses, each division falls deeper into some(prenominal) an actual and figurative darkness, of the landscape and in their mentalitys. The relationship in the midst of the landscape and intellectual psyche of the soldiers, is seen as the crew, made up of Chief, Lance, Chef, Clean, and Willard, venture set ahead into enemy territory. The use of their mission is to go out Willard, the narrator and chief(prenominal) typeface, to captain Kurtz. Kurtz is a former upper-level military member, who has asleep(p) rogue, and seemingly helpless his sanity. Each character loses their sense of self, as the horrors of war come out around them, as their environment becomes much menacing.\nThe film offers several(prenominal) insights into war, and human nature. The near prominent macrocosm that in a society, there ar constraints to keep multitude from, losing it. The film makes the shoot that freedom from much(prenominal) societal constrains, leads to delirium, and that erstwhile pushed to a trusted run, you can any reject or embrace the dark, tyke, and pristine part of your mind and soul. This is seen in both Willard and Kurtz, where Willard ends up rejecting this notion, and Kurtz ends up accepting. Both Willard and Kurtz followed the akin psychological passage to madness. This change is visualised in Willard, as he travels march on and further up the Nung River, towards Kurtz. Once Willard reaches the compound, it represents the corresponding psychological hamlet Kurtz came across. The psyche of a soldier is a direct harvest of the environment they argon in. In an environment as fuddled and horrible as Vietnam, insanity is totally a involvement of time and circumstance. In this sense I use insanity to describe the savage part of geniuss self, that war indulges. The film makes the p oint that the soldier has the choice, to either accept or deny the insanity of war, as seen in Willard as he re... '