Apocalypse Now Themes

Apocalypse Now was released in 1979 and it was an influential film during the Vietnam War era. The movie took approximately ten years to produce costing $30 million to fund. The director Francis Ford Coppola had several setbacks with production, independence, and just being creatively free. All these setbacks brought doubt or questions about his work all the time. The film was shot and produced in the Philippines and financed from a Hollywood studio system. (Apocalypse, n.d.)
Both Conrad’s, “Heart of Darkness”, and Coppola’s, “Apocalypse Now”, greatly show the journey of man into their inner self and man’s encounters with their insanity, fears and demise. The novella and film are comprised of numerous pivotal themes that simplify the understanding
But if anyone is pushed just like these men where, people become savage and start to live by these lines between being civilized and being an animal like person. When someone make a war movie they must have been somewhere during sometime to experience these things. Society has shaped a role in us thinking that all men are good for is to depend the country to kill and die. When you turn 18 it is ok for them to sign off and go to war but it’s not ok for them to write obscene words. The government especially our presidents have lead us straight in to war. Leading us straight into war we have a lot of people who are not mentally capable of living a normal life and would do anything like Captain Willard to back into the military and go to war. These are those types of cultural injustices and
One of my social issues was Age and the life course. In this movie, we watched young men go to war but they were not allowed to part take on certain events like drinking or watching that half naked girl dance on the stage. I also choose Alienation, Cultural Shock, these men were stranded on a boat, in the jungle and it caused them to partake on this they would have not if they were in the naturalization. Self-looking glass theory theme was important because I started to analyze how people see me as a person and I tend to get riled up sometimes and I wonder do people see crime in me. In this movie to conclude we can judge the Captain Willard for his decisions and many other reason. Most importantly he was deranged, he wanted to be socially in control of everything, but I feel that he was trying to do the best with what personnel he had and with the circumstance that he was in. I am proud to have learned a different psychological point of view from stress, evil, and negativity to power, control and