The screen fades from black to an intensely green jungle and the whooshing blades of a helicopter are heard in slow speed. The dark notes of The Doors' song, The End are heard as vibrant, wispy yellow smoke makes the jungle appear hazy. "This is the end, beautiful friend ... to Africa. This furthers Conrad's theme of the paradox of colonialism by providing another example of how the English, read Europeans, are no better than the native Africans because they too were once the savages being colonized and "civilized."" The next three lines all have clear connections to Apocalypse Now. The two l...

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