Maybe it doesn’t have to, because the experience of watching it is so profound, and you’re so with a director who is able to evoke so much. The film works best a collage, and when it’s on it’s one of the greatest films ever made, but the film never congeals. When it comes to the ending, the struggles the filmmakers faced trying to tie it all up are apparent. But regardless, Brando is fascinating, even if he is stumbling. He’s a cult leader with little messianic actions. Brando is shot well, but Kurtz as a character on screen is half-baked. Here is where the film loses what it became, as it starts to really embrace the Conrad text as the two begin a discussion that is essentially Brando’s Kurtz ranting poetry. As the boat loses more members, they finally get to Kurtz’s compound, where they meet a photojournalist (Dennis Hopper), the man who was originally intended to capture Kurtz (Scott Glenn), and finally Kurtz himself. The film was chaos to make, and that chaos comes across on screen. Coppola has called the film not about Vietnam, but Vietnam, and I get it.
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As the movie is essentially a series of anecdotes, having more character moments in this epic doesn’t really hurt, but they often reiterate points that already came across. Ultimately the Redux cut does little in my mind to improve the film it just shows where the film could have gone. The Redux version segues into the French colonist sequence that restates much of what’s already there, and slows the film, but is fascinating on its own. Afterwards the boys find themselves coming into direct conflict with the natives, and this sequence summarizes Coppola’s understanding America’s involvement in Vietnam in a very succinct way, and why America “lost” the war.įrom there things get dark as the boys head to a campsite where no one knows who is in charge any more, but bullets and bombs are flying, and a firefight leads to the first death of the group. As there’s nothing but men there, the presentation ends horribly because the men just want sex (the girls get more to do in the extended cut, but this mostly just offers nudity). This leads to them meeting the sirens (there’s definitely both The Odyssey and Dante to this enterprise along with Joseph Conrad), a group of Playboy bunnies there to entertain the troops.
They’ve entered into a world beyond their control, and the environment is plotting against them.
Chef starts screaming about never getting off of the boat, and everything gels in that moment. The boys stop near some land for a piss and a break, and out comes a tiger. The next section of the film is probably my favorite, as it has one of the most effective jump scares in cinema. Like Dante’s Inferno, there are many circles to this hell they’ve entered into, and this is the outset.
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