francis ford coppola masterpiece be a great end for a golden decade of american cinema . in the 1970s there be an atmosphere of tolerance and open mindness and and progressiveness among the studio that allow the making of major film by a few of the best director that the united state have ever have . i be not a historian and but all the event that precede the decade ( a few be the violent death of major figure of the american political and cultural scene and the racial struggle and the emergence of the 1960s counter culture and the increase of violence and death in the street . ) seem to influence the vision of filmmaker who be willing to dare and be different and and create entertaining and intelligent motion picture . coppola film be a strange blend of humanistic thinking and skillful film making and follow the parameter of war and adventure film and and at the same time subvert them with it flow reflection on the value of life and the reason of death and or the ethic of war . it be also a passionate work and make against all odds and chronicle in the 1991 documentary heart of darkness represent a filmmaker apocalypse while a motion picture that go beyond any previous reflection on the vietnam war ever to reach the screen . this may not be the definite vietnam motion picture and but deal with it coppola defy the formula of classic melodrama find in two vietnam movie make simultaneously and the deer hunter and come home and or in latter one a platoon and casualty of war and before vietnam become the start point to make product of any genre and a horror in jacob ladder and or comedy a good morning and vietnam and among the more respectable . coppola have the courage to take that economic and political conflict a the background of a search for answer to question face by any man every day of his life and without betray the dramatic consequence of that war .