«Apocalypse Today» by Director Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1979. Martin Shin, Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford and others.
«The Heart of Darkness» was first published in the magazine Blackwoods Magazine in 1899.
The further Marlowe feels stronger, the finer the line between a civilized man and a primordial «barbarus». Meeting with mysterious trading agent Kurz, who created his own cruel kingdom in the middle of the jungle, becomes a hero’s encounter with the horror that everyone’s soul is asleep if all moral prohibitions are thrown away.
Willard’s expedition is not so much a military raid as a mythological trip to a primordial horror, where the U.S. Army turns out to be as cruel and pointless a force as Conrad’s colonizers.
Francis Ford Coppola’s film received «Gold palm branch» at the Cannes Film Festival, two Oscar awards and three Golden Globes.
