Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Pepe Le Loco (A) on October 14, 2006 at 04:35:52

In Reply to: Re: First off, thanks for at least keeping part of YOUR vitriol in control posted by tinear on October 13, 2006 at 16:53:35:

A war film about a failed war, wherein the aggressor...is the only force portrayed INVARIABLY ends up making heroes of the killers: in the viewers' eyes.
It is a well-known effect in film.
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I gather you must be a huge A Clockwork Orange fan.

Seriously, climb outside your box, or at least try.

Otherwise, if you're really looking for something to tell you right from wrong because you cant figure it out yourself, stay away from art and stick with fables, comic books, and polemics, and all the other pleasant guides for goodness.

Art demands critical participation.

Has Apocalypse got its problems? Sure.

But none of them have to do with its morality, its politics, or how closely its sketch of an insane war may or may not have mirrored an actual American conflict with the North Viet Namese.

To be candid, I cant understand how you can criticize the film
on moral grounds- Appocalypse Now! is no more a film about Viet Nam than The Godfather is a film about the Mafia.

Both films are uncompromising meditations on the jungle that is morality itself.