... basic level. After viewing what can only be described as a thematically intense and visually striking film, it is easy for the viewer to disregard the art and distinguish Francis Ford Coppola's success in echoing the major themes of Heart of Darkness in Apocalypse Now through its characters and its moral implications. Through the use of an enigmatic and extreme focus, the character ... become unknowingly obsessed and fascinated with him. The movie shows Willard reading on length about every aspect of the once prominent army official's life in the midst of death and examples of demeaning...

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