'Views of War in Apocalypse Now'

'The film, Apocalpyse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, illustrates the psychologically damaging personal effects of the Vietnam contend. As the explanation progresses, each subject falls deeper into some(prenominal) an actual and nonliteral darkness, of the landscape and in their understandings. The relationship amid the landscape and psychological psyche of the soldiers, is seen as the crew, made up of Chief, Lance, Chef, Clean, and Willard, venture foster into enemy territory. The pop the question of their mission is to co-occurrence Willard, the narrator and main sh atomic number 18, to captain Kurtz. Kurtz is a former high-ranking military member, who has g adept rogue, and seemingly incapacitated his sanity. Each character loses their sense of self, as the horrors of war escalate around them, as their environment becomes more(prenominal) menacing.\nThe film offers several(prenominal) insights into war, and human nature. The around prominent be that in a society, there be constraints to keep pot from, losing it. The film makes the pip that freedom from much(prenominal) societal constrains, leads to aberration, and that erstwhile pushed to a certain(a) commove, you can any reject or embrace the dark, peasant, and profound part of your mind and soul. This is seen in both(prenominal) Willard and Kurtz, where Willard ends up rejecting this notion, and Kurtz ends up accepting. Both Willard and Kurtz followed the alike psychological trail to hallucination. This change is picture in Willard, as he travels bring forward and further up the Nung River, towards Kurtz. Once Willard reaches the compound, it represents the uniform psychological village Kurtz came across. The psyche of a soldier is a direct increase of the environment they are in. In an environment as stiff and horrible as Vietnam, insanity is and a progeny of time and circumstance. In this sense I use insanity to describe the savage part of ones self, tha t war indulges. The film makes the point that the soldier has the choice, to all accept or deny the insanity of war, as seen in Willard as he re... '