APOCALYPSE NOW

(colonialism)

Frankly say, when we watched this movie (apocalypse now) for the first time, we really fascinated by the film making. It is full of ‘horror’ and ‘evil’, yet the cinematography to be showed looked real and fantastic. Most of the film shooting is set in Vietnam. We really like the place because the environment is not much different with our place in Malaysia.Especially the environment in the river and the jungle which almost the same with Malaysia.

A part of this film, viewers can see about the evil and cruel of American military in treating the natives (Viatnamese). Did you ever think the colonialism is good? We don’t think so. Eventhough at the beginning, the objective of imperialism or colonialism is to make changes and to civilize that particular country, (e.g Africa and Vietnam), but at the end of the day, the American troops breached the objectives. Instead of helping innocent civilians, American troops kill them. That is what really happened in reality. The American military have been in a strange land, however they act as if they own it, staking out territory and firing without provocation.It probably happened due to the greedy manner of humanbeings,cruel,want to grab and dominate the power, as well as to conquer that country.

For instance, in apocolypse now, the film characterizes Willard's mission to kill one of its highest-ranking military officials named Kurtz. At the same time American military have been at Vietnam to colonize the country and broaden their imperialism. However, it's not clear why killing Kurtz is a priority, when American troops and Vietnamese civilians are dying. We are not really agree and protest the idea of 'colonialism'. Even we never experince the war, but we can imagine the suffering and the difficulty of the natives to be colonized.It's really suffer,live with fear and afraid to be murdered.The natives become strangers in their own land.

What we can say, American troops should not do that to the Viatnamese, as well as to other people that they want to colonize. They should not treat the natives like that. Probbaly, the American think that they are great and power! They can conquer any country they like. They can force anyone under their rules and administration.Do you at the same boat with us?We really hate this kind of people. Greedy and cruel!

HEART OF DARKNESS VS. APOCALYPSE NOW

There has a little bit differences about the film with the novel.The first one is about "narrator". In the novel, the story is being told by the narrotor, together with other listener such as an accountant,a manager and Marlow. The story was about Marlow. However, in the film, it is clearly shows that the story is told by the main character of this story. The story is about himself.The main character's name in the novel is Marlow, but in the film is characterized by Captain Willard.

Other than that, the novel has two separate settings. One, the frame narrative, is the setting for the telling of the tale on a cruising yawl (sailing vessel) or yacht on the Thames River near London, England. The second setting is that of the actual tale. In it, the protagonist travels to Brussels, the capital city of Belgium and home to the ivory company. Then to the Belgium Congo in Africa, with its dark, snaking, and mysterious river (in contrast to the tranquil Thames), and then back to Brussels.

In our opinion, both the film ‘apocalypse now’ and the novel ‘heart of darkness’ revealed about Western (United State of America) colonialism in general. It seems like in the novel the message is that colonialism is a horrifying evil. In the movie, the message seems to be that the evil of the war is terrible, and ought to be destroyed, but the evil can not be simply personified, and the entire system
ought to actively destroy too.

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