francis ford coppola apocalypse now be not a vietnam war film . do not confuse it with one . it be set to the back drop of the war and but it be a metaphorical exposition on the deteriorating effect that war have on the human psyche . it be also one of the most audacious film ever make and produce and or even conceive ( second to the lord of the ring trilogy . to call it a masterpiece would be an understatement of proportion as ambitious a the film production level . open with no credit and follow a memorable first scene playing to the tune of the door the end a martin sheen captain benjamin l. willard hallucinate to image of helicopter and napalm and the plot be essentially lay out in the first 15 minute . willard mission be to terminate . with extreme prejudice colonel kurtz ( marlon brando ) who have invariably go awol in the far reach of the cambodian jungle and and a tell by his general and be out there operate without any decent restraint and totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct . and he be still in the field command troop . kurtz be a delusional colonel now be worship by a large group of follower who have dub him a god . for willard and this covert operation seem somewhat more manageable than actual combat and yet and the journey he be about to take will be a personal quest that will challenge the limit of his human behavior . team up with a small crew and they embark down the vast reach of the river in a rickety boat . along the way and willard educate himself on all thing kurtz . during sheen raspy voice over and he detail his thought on the abundance of material he read . kurtz be a highly decorate and respect green beret . he be a normal man with a family and until a part of him succumb to the horror of human brutality and he lead himself down the path that willard be be lead . the descent into the jungle be mark by a mesmerizing aura that echo the battle be fight not to far away . eventually the power of the experience weight on the group a drug and a sort of solitary confinement attack their sens . but willard seem unfazed and desensitize in his quest to find kurtz . a he read about this mythic figure and he be draw to the man power and why he have become what he have become . we know that willard slow decay will parallel that of kurtz . marlon brando have be revere for decade . his presence represent unmatchable . his genius represent undeniable . but for those unacquainted with his act prowess and unaccustomed to his physical nuance and brando can be perceive and in the eye of an uncompromising film goer and a a hack . he be most certainly not . brando be difficult to work with and hard to interpret and impossible to understand and but his talent for unintelligible rant and unparalleled monologue be irrefutable . the man obviously know what he be do even if we do not . his colonel kurtz be a be of limitless delusion and continual profundity . if the film be any indication of the journey into hell than francis ford coppola actual experience with make this masterpiece be a true life account of one man fanatical struggle to produce a movie . it be report that during the film 200 plus day principle photography schedule and coppola contemplate suicide . the film be not only an undeniable struggle to make while it be a grueling film to watch . coppola sweat and blood seep through the pore of the steamy local and his dedication filter through the orifice of martin sheen haunt soldier willard . i can not help but feel a warm sense of nostalgia for this type of film . at the dawn of all that be original and unprecedented and film that challenge as well a stimulate be commonplace . audacity aside and apocalypse now be pure film making . my respect and admiration for mr. coppola be of the high order . but i shudder at the return to what have become the norm for today standard for film represent a lack of innovation . it be not simply the unoriginality of the world of cinema today while it be the fact that nobody seem to care to tell a story anymore or to tell one with heart . but we still have the great one like coppola masterpiece and a film which bath in it ability to give u something deep than that which we could comprehend . that depth in apocalypse now be the step into madness . the killing can disturb . the loss of innocence can unhinge . but it be the damage from within while the countless barrage of image that distress and unnerve and detach u from our everyday world and the memory that plague our deep thought that eventually segregate u from humanity and propel u into the realm of the instinctual and the savage and the animalistic . if the thought of kill do not provide sustenance and the act of kill provide man with it fundamental catharsis .