Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by danj (A) on January 04, 2003 at 22:21:54

In Reply to: Apocalypse Now! posted by Bruce from DC on December 30, 2002 at 17:04:42:

One of the finest films ever made. I've seen it many times and am always finding something else that's great about it.

I guess it is like that other masterpiece that divides so many: "2001, A Space Odyssey." It isn't meant to be "realistic." It is meant to make one think. It is poetry. It is genius. It is art.

If AN is about anything, it is about the "military mind" and how it deviates from rationality. How military "reality" is sometimes less sane than it is surreal. How different people alter their realities to allow them to cope with horrible situations.

I'm a Vietnam era vet and the movie really connected with me. Much like the other masterpiece about the Vietnam War: "Platoon." The movies are very different but both are brilliant and thought provoking. And orders of magnitude better than your typical war movie.