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from the article in your link, dingo.

-but perhaps the archetypal piece of apologetic celluloid trash is “Apocalypse Now” (a pathetic attempt to apologise for America’s decisive defeat in Vietnam).

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not so at all. This very fine movie was a portrait of the Vietnam nightmare.

All you needed was the smell, the heat, the bugs, snakes and the terror.

And, of course the option of leaving the theatre at your own will.

care to take another viewing -- it portrayed the Vietnamese as barbaric cave dwellers when in fact they were an old culture attempting to rid themselves of colonial rule and foreign invaders -- the racism in the film is unmistakeable! Are you blind or just thick?

America deserved defeat then and now -- you doodle dandies are certainly hard learners -- a cultural characteristic traceable to the religious cultists that were kicked out of Europe for their extremist views.

Good luck, pilgrim!

Actually it portrayed the Vietnamese as a force of nature, unseen, everywhere and the American military as an out of control, monster with its culturally pampered players finding themselves in a situation, where all the 'power and the glory' of its wealth and weapons, shooting into the night of a nightmare beyond understanding.

In the opening beach head operation, the Vietnamese villagers were shown to be organized and ferocious in their resistance. Not " barbaric cave dwellers" as I can't recall any scenes supporting this opinion.

You can interpret it anyway you like.

According to your own views on this matter.

the barbarism you refer to was a malignancy that the Special Forces berserker created in the Cambodian 'secret' war when his kernel popped.

These were not Vietnamese and this was not racist. It was ' the horror' of this nightmare.

The generals, having prime rib and offering cigarettes with the coffee, were the barbarians playing w/ their hunting dog.

Don't ever diss Stanley Kubrick.

Not after Dr. Strangelove.

In Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" as well as Apocalypse Now, Kurtz is a metaphor for Lucifer and the River a metaphor for the transition between the garden of Eden (hence the reference to Gardenias) - and Hell.

Kurtz is beyond redemption and so is targeted for termination. That's the price he pays for rebelling and operating outside the corporate hierarchy.

The Horror? Eyes Wide Shut - For eternity.