"The horror.... the horror!"
Apocalypse Now is, I think, THE ANTI-WAR FILM! Not only is it one of my ALL TIME favorite films (and being a horror film and all....) and I'm the only person in the world who owns a bootleg of the 5 hour workprint cut "the version that's not supposed to exist", watching it again right now strikes me with deja-vu. I get the same feeling everytime I watch it, and no, it's not my dellusions of grandeur and how I flashback to experiences that never happened, the deja-vu of when I last watched the movie. Maybe it's because I haven't seen this movie much, I know that may sound odd but I just realized that and I know every scene vivid in my memory and I can quote lines from it and I can almost immediately tell if it's theatrical version or Redux jumping in half way through but every time I watch it - I study, analyze, dissect, engage and a part of me feels as if I'm there, and I always get a wretched queasyness during the disturbing acts of irrational human violent behavior. For people are what are really scary (don't get me wrong, I love people!!! but people are also maniacs, murderers, rapists...) - and this is another film that enforces such a fear. I can watch films like LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and hell! NATURAL BORN KILLERS with a huge grin on my face for its work in portraying that fear is so successful - maybe this film gets me going because this really happened. That war is real and this film brings it down on a human level and shows it in our face.
And that's what I also love about it. And that's why I love it. And I can't wait, to someday, make a film as terrifying, real, horrific and disturbing... with purpouse of course, with a meaning.
...And... That's why this movie was made, to make people aware, to realize, to perhaps seeing it has an outlet of the horrors around us and then maybe we can reflect it and learn from it.
Bless Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius
Now the movie Maniac... the most terrifying, unsettling, ruthlessly violent film I vow to NEVER see again... that's another story.
And that's what I also love about it. And that's why I love it. And I can't wait, to someday, make a film as terrifying, real, horrific and disturbing... with purpouse of course, with a meaning.
...And... That's why this movie was made, to make people aware, to realize, to perhaps seeing it has an outlet of the horrors around us and then maybe we can reflect it and learn from it.
Bless Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius
Now the movie Maniac... the most terrifying, unsettling, ruthlessly violent film I vow to NEVER see again... that's another story.