I wasn't all that excited by the idea of watching this movie, but I have to say by the end I was blown away and confused. I'm not a fan of war movies or big epics so a Vietnam War movie sounded lame to me. It's why I've never sought out to watch this movie......Well I was wrong. I was dead wrong, and I'll be the first person to admit it.
I shouldn't say that I loved the whole thing. That wouldn't be true. For a lot of it I felt like it was this long boring journey down the river with gun shots and yelling every so often. It had it's moments with Robert Duvall's character yelling about surfing and Clean dying to his own mother's voice, but those moments were few and far between. I can appreciate how difficult it must have been to shoot all these busy scenes, but for me it wasn't until the end that my outlook on the movie really changed.
Once Martin Sheen gets captured things start blending together. It was tough to tell what happened, and Marlon Brando's character only tripled the confusion. Though, something is communicated during this time that changes the feel of the movie as a whole. I'm not sure what it is, but I think a big part of it has to do with how it was shot. As Willard makes his way to Kurtz and kills him it becomes the climax that the whole movie has built to. It's intense and gripping and leaves that feeling well after the movie ends.
I'm still not sure what to think of it all, but any movie that can put you through that kind of experience isn't doing one thing right. It's doing many things right at the same time to trigger something in the viewer. I look forward to re-watching this film more on my own to try and understand exactly what that is.
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