All 4 of the iconic Vietnam war movies, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket were not only about the horrors of war, but the insanity and its toll. In Apocalypse Now, the farther up river the greater the insanity until the end and Colonel Kurtz gone over the edge of insanity.
Ebert was right in 1979. Siskel’s take, in retrospect, comes off as almost amateurishly tangential and beside the point of the film’s now-obvious, lightening-in-a-bottle genius. Roger saw what many couldn’t see at the time.
All 4 of the iconic Vietnam war movies, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket were not only about the horrors of war, but the insanity and its toll. In Apocalypse Now, the farther up river the greater the insanity until the end and Colonel Kurtz gone over the edge of insanity.
2:05 Roger got it right here
Ebert was right in 1979. Siskel’s take, in retrospect, comes off as almost amateurishly tangential and beside the point of the film’s now-obvious, lightening-in-a-bottle genius. Roger saw what many couldn’t see at the time.