Apocalypse Now: Not Sure I Get the Title, But Great Movie

As with all Coppola films, there is excellent cinematography and creative shots. The story telling is slow but captivating. Humanity is almost alive in his films, therefore making the violence even harder to watch. I read 'The Heart of Darkness' over a year ago and finally re-watched this film in order to make comparisons. The script eloquently replaces the time and place into this amazing story of humanity without rules to confine our actions or to tell us what is morally right or wrong. Apocalypse Now shows how close war comes to the border of 'insanity' just as Joesph Conrad uses colonialism in his book. In the book though, it seems like the orderless mayhem would be prevalent with or without Kurtz. Maybe this is true of some early civilizations, maybe this is how people of Conrad's time saw early civilizations, or maybe all civilizations are really this way and only use law to mask our inhibitions. This would mean that Conrad and Coppola already get what we pretend does not exist: we will always be animals, no matter how 'advanced' our technology becomes or how pervasive our species is. Great movie.