Colin MCGuire - Apocalypse Now
This week’s film Apocalypse Now was an amazing movie. The movie moved me in ways not any other movie has ever moved me. I had such immense feelings towards the actions played throughout the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, but in the end was outraged. No military procedure portrayed in the movie was necessary, nor was the force and brutality. The violence shown continuously through the movie was highly disturbing. In a quote pulled from the reading “The Politics of Ambivalence: Apocalypse Now as Prowar and Antiwar film” Tomasulo quotes “In some ways, Apocalypse Now shows the war not as immoral, only mishandled.” This thought is only partly correct. Indeed the war was largely mishandled, but it was also immoral. The war was wrongly conducted on many parts. The brutal violence was bad enough on its own, without the excessive malice the majority of every soldier showed towards the enemy. For instance, when the soldiers shoot and kill the Vietnamese woman and steal her puppy. Our when the colonel is merely letting water spill out of his canteen when the man dying on the ground next to him is merely asking for a sip. The was mishandled by the government and military as a whole, but was immoral on every account of the soldiers involved (as shown in the movie).