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Apocalypse Now Chris Lewis

The world is coming to an end and what are you going to do? Kill a vietnamese woman and take her puppy. This movie had a large emotional effect on me, and that usually doesn't happen. About the time that the two soldiers were fighting over the puppy I felt the urge to leave. This film portrays the lonliness and the hatred involved in war. Even in a room full of people I felt alone. I'm sure this is one of the things the director tried to portray in his movie, the lonliness of war. If the world were coming to an end it would make sense to go out in a blaze of glory. This movie also showed the de-evolution from common man getting an assignment for assasination to the primal urges of murder and greed. In vietnam the world ends while nobody knows. For them apolypse happened Now.

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