spoiler . this review have be edit due to word limit . ` the horror . the horror . marlon brando and apocalypse now ( 1979 ) and apocalypse now redux ( 2001 ) the sentence which be as famous a ` here look at you and kid and or ` be you talkin to me . or ` may the force be with you and or ` i will be back and mean a little more than some one liner . when it be speak it linger in the air with an importance and meaning that do not go unnoticed . what might drive some viewer nut be that they may never find an answer to the horror unless they re watch the film and try to pay close observation to every single frame . what and exactly and do this line of dialogue mean . the horror spoken of be the reality of war . the reality of moral men be so easily corrupt that they turn on their inborn instinct and kill fellow being without any sign of guilt . when capt . willard ( martin sheen ) stand before the die col. kurtz ( marlon brando ) at the end of the film and ` the horror . the horror . be the realization of willard corruptness . he have mercilessly kill a man in cold blood a part of his assignment . this isn not a typical hollywood end . in most case a character gain something and whether it be emotionally and physically and mentally or all three . but willard both gain and loses . he gain the knowledge that he have lose his moral . and that be a shock end . ` apocalypse now be francis ford coppola tribute to the artistic side of filmmaking . this film be wholly different from ` the godfather . it be hallucinogenic and visually dazzling and and an ode to the guilty side of human nature . at first it seem realistic and and then it become strange and and then symbolic and and and by the end and original in it own unique perspective of the spiritual side of warfare . this be not as much a film about the vietnam war a it be a film about the war within u . at first it do appear to be another war film . captain willard ( sheen ) be assign by an army lieutenant ( a young harrison ford ) to assassinate a renegade american colonel name kurtz ( brando ) and who be hide out somewhere in vietnam with a hoard of troop who more or less act a his slave . willard carry out his mission ` with extreme prejudice and head out on a boat along with four soldier and include the boat captain and chief ( albert hall ) and chef ( frederic forest ) and and a very young ` larry fishburne ( who later go on to appear a morpheus in ` the matrix ) . apocalypse now be in a many way a modern update of homer odyssey . a our main character and willard and carry on his journey and he meet an array of original and strange character and include lt. col. kilgore ( robert duvall ) and who have a strange fetish for surf and and a stone photographer ( dennis hopper ) and whose lively gesture and mannerism can be compare to those of the very much less jeremy davy in the million dollar hotel and one of the bad film i have ever see . davy fail to make any connection with an audience while hopper do . he be like the poetic vibe between willard and kurtz while he be like an interpreter go back and forth and speaking in foreign language . in this case and he be translate kurtz to willard and although i be not so sure kurtz need a translation of willard . many film be lucky enough to have one or two memorable scene or line . apocalypse now have many . kilgore descend upon a vietnam village playing wagner ride of the valkyrie remain one of the most remembered scene in all of film history . there be sharpness to it and a brutality to it and an ironic tone to it and and also a sense of playfulness . when kilgore kneel down on that beach and say and ` i love the smell of napalm in the morning . it smell like victory and we all crack a smile . i would not lie to you represent ` apocalypse now be a strange film . it isn not exactly the easy thing to analyze . the end may frustrate some viewer if they do not understand marlon brando significant speech . but what it all come down to and what really matter and be that this film be about the dark nature of the human psyche . the horror be the realization of war and it effect and not the war itself . kurtz say and ` you have a right to kill me . but you have no right to judge me . brando character and kurtz and be leave to the audience to judge . to many naïve viewer he may appear a a crazy loon whose power get to his head . but that isn not what francis ford coppola be try to get across . by fight in vietnam and kurtz have realize just how great he have it and and how bad some others have it . by walk through devastate village he eventually come to realize that we be the naïve one and live our life in a fool paradise . we be totally naïve to our surroundings and possible misfortune until they hit . by see how unlucky some vietnamese be and kurtz realizes just how easily he could be strike by something . just how easily he could end up like the people around him . and he also realize that the people who do this be people who have abandon their moral and leave them at the door . many people think the horror be one thing . it be two . for kurtz and the horror be the reality of how naïve he be and the reality of the war impact upon men . and after willard murder kurtz and and hears kurtz die word and he realize it too . he realize the effect of war . to see so many soldier with no sense of right or wrong make him realize the horror of what war can do to a man . and what it have do to him . the horror . 5/5 star .