1979 · drama · war
Apocalypse Now
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola2h 27m1979
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Our read: Apocalypse Now (1979) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / war, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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