I never did understand that movie. I do wonder what drugs our “leaders” are on.
As I understand it, the movie was a modern remake of Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” with Vietnam Nam as a location and political theme. Both are meant to showcase the ethical, moral, intellectual, and whatever you got in the dynamic tension between civilization and primitive “wilderness”. Where ever you find men, regardless of their background or culture you find similar stresses which are responded to in different yet not dissimilar ways. These dissimilarities provide the “clash of culture” in each case and the solution is always to “become the enemy to understand him” and the motivation to murder is always dehumanizations of the other. Not spectacularly insightful in the modern era but 100 years ago such observations apparently were considered brilliant.
I don’t think that I ever seen the movie. As a matter of fact the title turned me off, that I had no desire to see it.
not sure about then but now the naval officer corps is pretty much on viagra
Re Apoco Now - I took a co-worker out to the movie and she took me home first time that happened to me on the job it was the 70s