Synopsis:
During the Vietnam War, U.S. Captain Willard was ordered from headquarters to find Colonel Coates, who had broken away from the U.S. Army, bring him back, or kill him. Coates once had a glorious history, but now it's insane. He established an independent kingdom in Vietnam, pursued barbaric, bloody, inhuman brutality, and sporadic radio propaganda to the U.S. military in a frenzied, almost nonsensical manner. Willard led a small group of soldiers up the Mekong River and crossed the jungle to Vietnam. In the search for Colonel Coates, Willard crossed almost the entire Vietnamese battlefield. He was deeply shocked by the scenes of atrocities, horrors, killings and deaths. In the midst of the constant killing, Willard also almost became crazy.
Finally arrived at Coates' Kingdom of Terror. They fell into Coates's hands and were tortured. But it also allowed Willard to face Coates directly. Coates could have killed Willard, but he didn't, and with the help of Willard's hand, he completed the long-awaited death and finally got free from this crazy world. And Willard also deeply experienced the evil and darkness in the human heart, and experienced the madness caused by evil. The natives knelt before him, and he had effectively replaced Coates. Feeling disgusted by all this, Willa della gathered up her companions and boarded the ship and left. Coates' madness was stopped, but throughout the Vietnamese battlefield, terror and killing were still going on in a frenzy.
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War The darkness of human nature
It's a dark movie, and it's a light movie.
It's an anti-Vietnam War movie, and it's also a film that indicts all the wars.
Perhaps coincidentally, when the 911 incident occurred, the film was also re-screened that year, and the re-release version lasted 3 hours and 16 minutes, adding some previous images that were unacceptable to the audience at the time, making this great work more full,Receiving praise when it was re-screened, and also allowing Americans to reflect on the consequences of the war once again.
According to the U.S. Office of Budget and Management (OMB), the official actual military expenditure of the Vietnam War (1965-1973) was $134.7 billion, with 650,000 soldiers fighting, 58,000 dead, 300,000 wounded, and 2,500 missing. "War trauma syndrome" has caused many returned veterans to commit suicide, and what is the cause of suicide, perhaps this movie can give part of the answer.
In a sea of war, the film opened the curtain, some people were born for peace, some people were born for war, no war for war can not adapt to real life, willard in the hotel is waiting, looking forward to returning to the battlefield, has been on the verge of collapse, for him, maybe born to become a warrior.
When he was about to collapse, waiting for a mission, it turned out that another officer was more crazy than him in the war, Colonel Coates had once been the pride of the American army, belonged to the elite of the elite, but the war had made him crazy and brutal, in the eyes of some senior officers in the Us army, this was a time bomb that had been out of control, that only to send someone to solve the bomb, and Willard could finally return to the battlefield to solve the time bomb.
Back on the battlefield, can he find himself?
In the nearly three-hour movie, the first 2 and a half hours, Willard, while passing through the Vietnam War, constantly constructed this person through the data, the data shows that he is such a perfect person, but why does it become brutal and crazy?
What exactly does war bring to the soldiers? Nowadays, when many Americans begin to reminisce about this war in which the United States participated in more than a decade, why the defeat was so tragic is what many people want to know, and there may be many reasons, and the movie gives its own answer through some aspects.
War with surfing who matters
The U.S. action code name in the Vietnam War is said to have thousands, and Operation Arc is one of them, when the group of people led by Willard up the river, just caught up with one of the operations, and the commander of the operation is not so much fighting, but rather in the game of life, treating war as a game, giving each dead enemy a death poker, telling people who they are against, bombing the remote jungle, not because there may be enemies, just worried about someone, then bomb first, then bomb first. Give him plenty of room to breathe the free air.
On the one hand, the landing and bombing, while comforting the common people, said that we are here to help you, just as a group of officers and soldiers ran to a village and said that because there are bandits, we came to help you, and the way to help was to burn and grab for a while, and then give some bread and rice, first a big stick and then gentle, in the face of everything destroyed, is this destruction or help?
A cow flew from the sky on a plane in the sky, and a group of soldiers, led by a priest, prayed to heaven for food, and at night ate delicious steak, which was really brought down from heaven, but not God, but was brought from a group of people by his own plane.
I heard that the place where Willard is going is a surfing mecca, whether it is dangerous or not, the surf-loving boss destiny helicopter back to the headquarters to choose a good surfboard, ready to go surfing, not so much to fight, but to surf.
The village that originally looked peaceful became a sea of fire and battlefield because of the arrival of the American troops, the main reason was not to escort Willard over, but to surf by himself, the war became a cover for self-love, under the blow of modern weapons, the Viet Cong in the village could not resist at all, but the losses were not small, there were civilians with bombs rushing into helicopters, this war may hit the hostile forces, but the civilians will suffer more damage.
The reason why the United States is unable to return to the battlefield in Vietnam is also because when the war is indiscriminately attacked, the civilians who are harmed may become the next potential enemy, and such enemies will be endless.
Willard can't look down, and when he arrives at his destination, he takes the Colonel's surfboard with him, and as a result, the Colonel drives a helicopter on the river and shouts back to the surfboard, the war turned out to be a game and the war is not important, surfing is an important thing, especially with a good surfboard is more important.
The glamorousness and humility of the cover girl
In the process of going up the river, Willard continued to read Coates's past, questioning one after another, what kind of person he was, why he had left the Vietnamese battlefield but insisted on returning to the Vietnamese battlefield, what he saw, and what he wanted to do, everything was in doubt.
The cruelty of the war is finished, the drama of the war comes again, Willard passes by a casino, for the so-called celebration of the action opened a performance to welcome the ladies, the seductive performance turned into a farce, the stage of these ladies live brightly, make all kinds of simple but seductive moves, but the truth is hidden in the darkness.
Glamorous and humble are good sisters.
There may be an unimaginable surface behind the time, the price of two barrels of gasoline, under the replacement of Willard, in exchange for the opportunity for the team members to spend the spring supper with these girls, some are willing, some people refuse, regardless of willingness or refusal, the ladies can not refuse such a thing, they are only one of the weapons of war, comforting the lonely hearts of these soldiers, but the hearts of these girls who will comfort, nobody.
The war has let love go away, and there is only one night of joy here, but there is no long-lasting love.
War and innocence
The Colonel could at any time launch a battle without prior planning for the sake of conflict, and the civilian population suffered in the battle.
In war, no one can say that he is clean. When confronted with a civilian ship, someone insisted on checking it, and under the invisible magic of war, the result was that it went off the rails, and it was only the civilian ship, but it was slaughtered by this small group of people.
When the last girl still has a breath, these people have to start to exert their humanitarian spirit and send the girl to the nearest friendly army for rescue, but Willard finally makes up a shot, completely tears the fig leaf, has killed so many people, do you care about this one?
The cruelty of war lies in how the enemy and the innocent can distinguish between each other, and when indiscriminate bombing, all compassion is illusory, and only the cruelty of war remains.
Sunset of the colonists
When running by force to someone else's land, occupying a piece of land and then beginning to announce, this is my territory, my territory I am in charge.
A group of French people stubbornly cling to the land that their fathers said to have laid down, insisting that this is my home and will never lose this land.
But the world is different, whether it is the Americans or the French, after all, they are not the people of this land, they can only be an outsider. The feelings of the French may be exactly what some Politicians in the United States think, we are here to help these people, we are not here to colonize, we are people with great ideals.
And the people who charge into the battle are just a group of people who have no goals, no ideals, who take pleasure in the Vietnam War, who take pleasure in other lands, and pretend to create the atmosphere of home, but is this a home?
Some soldiers want to go home, some soldiers use it as a paradise, and the August ladies who are forced to perform on the stage want to go home, but fate is not in their own hands, but in the hands of some politicians.
After traveling through almost all of Vietnam's U.S. military battlefields, the group finally arrived at their destination, and along the way, Willard's researchers finally revealed their true colors.
In this small country, there are no poets, only one god, and that is Colonel Coates, and the dead all over the camp are telling the truth that life is in the hands of only one person here, and if you are to be born, you are born, if you are to die, you have to be born, and there is no reason to talk about it.
In Coates's mind, all this is too terrible, but he can't get out of this predicament, so he obviously has countless opportunities to kill Willard, but he doesn't do it, he hopes that through Willard's hand, he can escape this boundless fear.
The two of them are so similar, and this is exactly the case, when The ultimate loss of Coates, Willard becomes a Cotes-like being in the eyes of a group of blindly worshipping natives, but the terrible echo in his mind prompts Willard to leave this independent kingdom.
Coates told the story that when they went to plant cowpox for a group of rural children, when they came back and saw the arms of a bunch of children who had planted cowpox, why did kindness bring more cruelty?
Holding a gun in one hand and flowers in the other, I am here to help you, and in the eyes of those who are being helped, perhaps far away, do not interfere is the greatest help.
But politicians don't think like this, wars don't think like this, even if one or two people want to think like this, they can only become crazy people in the eyes of others, crazy is not someone, crazy is the world.