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Apocalypse Now

Sent upriver during the Vietnam War, a weary Army captain enters an increasingly surreal landscape where military spectacle, moral collapse, and one elusive colonel blur the line between duty and madness.

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Year
1979
Runtime
147 min
Rating
R
Director
Francis Ford Coppola

Coppola turns a military mission into an overwhelming audiovisual descent through the machinery and madness of war.

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Themes

  • war and dehumanization
  • imperialism
  • moral disintegration

Tone

  • hallucinatory
  • ominous
  • operatic

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