Apocalypse Now
Ashley Frost
Apocalypse Now is a film that takes place during the Vietnam War, and follows the path of Captain Benjamin L. Willard who is sent on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz. Kurtz, a highly decorated U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel, abandoned the army and is thought to now be insane as he “rules” over the tribes in the jungles of Cambodia with violence. This movie truly brought to light how dark and evil man can become, even someone as “good” as Colonel Kurtz. These tribes, his “children” are kept safe from the war because Kurtz watches over them and protects them. He is a God figure to them. He almost seems untouchable, until the end of the movie when Willard butchers Kurtz at the same time that the cow is being butchered as a sacrifice. Throughout the entire film there is this tension between two different worldviews. On one hand there is the jungle and all of the indigenous peoples (natural), and on the other we have the Westerners and their technology and war ravaging the country (artifical). When the two worlds collide chaos ensues and war erupts. Kurtz was almost a combination of the two, and that didn’t end well.
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