Slaughter Movie Essay

This movie begins with the Captain of the army, Benjamin Willard is in a hotel room, who appears to be very drunk and angry. He ends up breaking a mirror during his anger and sits on the floor contemplating for a little while. Willard gets instructed to join other men on the boat, known as Lance, Clean, Chef and Chief who controlled the boat that they were going up the river on. On this boat, they team up with Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore. Their goal is to find Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz who is stationed in Cambodia. At one point, when Chef and Willard are in the woods, a tiger almost kills them when it comes from behind bushes, scaring them back onto the boat. Later, they come across a boat that has Vietnamese people in it and Willard shot and killed a woman who was realistically only trying to protect her dog, and the rest of the people on the boat were also killed.
Clean was shot and killed, whereas an arrow killed Chief. Kurtz has Willard locked in a tiger’s cage with Chef’s cut-off head in the cage with him. At the same during the movie, when the natives from Cambodia is slaughtering a cow (or some animal), it shows Willard coming after Kurtz with a machete. During the slaughtering, Willard kills Kurtz and the animal dies. The natives seem happy about the death of Kurtz, and Willard goes back to the boat with Lance and they go back from the way they came from, successfully completing the mission they were given. The last words that seemed to have a prevalence at the end of the movie is “the horror, the