Yu Katayama
The film, Apocalypse Now, could have been both a pro-war or an anti-war movie depending on how people would take the film. Personally I thought the film showed more of an anti-war theme rather than supporting the war like Tomasulo believed in. I thought the film showed lots of violent scenes and illustrated the reality of war which made me lean more towards being "against the war" rather than supporting the war. I don't know if it was a good idea for the film producer and the directors to show lots of violent scenes just because i thought this could have created more hate and grudge instead of leaving the past behind them. Also there were some scenes where we saw soldiers doing drugs and flirting around with the girls during the war instead of committing to what they were trying to accomplish - there were several actions which conflicted with the rules of war which I thought it was a bad example of representing your own country. Many innocent lives were taken away from this war and i thought it was quite disgusting to see lots soldiers doing the wrong things and killing people when they felt like it. I still don't know how Tomasulo would have thought that this film could be a pro-war film, but in my mind, it was definitely an anti-war film just because i didn't see any scenes where i thought i would consider this film as a pro-war film and after watching the film, i strongly felt that "war" in general only creates hate and anger, which is exactly what people don't want to have.