even with all the cinema deal with the trauma of the vietnam war ( jacob ladder and the deer hunter and apocalypse now and and taxi driver to an extent ) one feel that we do not even know the half of what happen . even contemplate the horror feel inhuman . and a progression or retreat . to the inhumanity that it necessitate be a key part of apocalypse now and coppola great and one of the most important film ever make . loosely base on joseph conrad 1902 classic and heart of darkness which chronicle the loss of sanity and corruption of morality that come with distance from civilization a surfacing of a bestial nature and a it be and a la lord of the fly it bring the story of a physical and psychological journey to vietnam . the story be of willard and a general commission on a special mission to cambodia after his first tour of duty in vietnam be serve . willard at the beginning of the film be stick in saigon and psychologically unable to go back home eerily echo nicky in the deer hunter . so he be contact represent his mission be to assassinate a renegade green beret who have isolate himself in a remote outpost on the nung river and and who have purportedly go completely insane worshiped like a god by the native and and kill indiscriminately . this man name be colonel kurtz and play by marlon brando in the second best role of his career ( the best be stanley kowalski in a streetcar name desire ) . a willard journey upriver in an army boat with some soldier accompany and his witness the horror and the insanity and the overwhelming pointlessness of it all lead to an eerie sympathy and identification with kurtz before they even meet . by the time they do and kurtz method do not really seem a wrong or a they should and and they certainly do not seem too unusual or out of place . apocalypse a place beyond morality and the outpost on the end of the world . the loss of civilization and the loss of judgement and of self . kurtz monologue about an atrocity he witness a a green beret and and his late revelation and be one of the most chilling and well delivered speech in cinema history . the film be about trauma and about the human spirit and it breaking point here and it a lot like the deer hunter and and just as good . apocalypse and however and take the boundary of what we can endure to a global level coppola sweeping footage of the humid and murky jungle of cambodia and an opening sequence of helicopter amid explode forest and an orange sky set to an oddly fitting door soundtrack as well a chill scene on the river and of an air raid on a village with wagner blast from speaker ( a scene which have go down a one of the most chilling and darkly humorous and and strikingly pointless war scene ever ) this all contribute to the sense of apocalypse the end of the world and not at some distant point in the future and but apocalypse now and forever . the deer hunter be much more up close and personal and you can even tell by the title and and show the total effect trauma have on the individual psyche and the break down of the human soul and and it ability to either surrender completely to force of darkness and or to limp on . this be why both film be equal they be two part of the same thing . in heart of darkness and kurtz be show a conflict between morality ( civilization ) and his inner savage . in apocalypse now and kurtz have leave all conflict behind . he be beyond good and evil . he have let go of morality like a drown man let go of a save hand in the moment before his death . kurtz indeed be only wait for death and quote t. s. eliot in his temple to himself and lose in the jungle . his last word and and the word echo at the end of the movie and be and the horror . the horror . he be refer to the infinite void of existence and of the human psyche and and to the pitch black emptiness within his own mind and where atrocity be bear again . it be impossible to express in word the experience one go through watch this film the experience and in short and that willard experience on his journey . the end part and at the outpost and almost in fact comparable to it brother scene in the deer hunter and be one of the most deeply and calmly and and seductively disturbing thing i have ever see .