War can cause and make a person experience situations and feelings they never thought they would have to encounter with. War affects a person in both mortality and physically because they have to deal with circumstances that in the progress can cause a darker and bolder way of thinking. Soldiers, children, adults that have to see or experience a situation in war can affect them on how they live the rest of their life in society. War is not just about trying to overcome your opponent but knowing that you need to be ready for what is coming your way and overcome everything else that you have to deal with physically, and psychologically. Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola shows the damage, insanity, and horror on how war affects a person. Apocalypse Now shows how the wars damage portrays psychological effect. The protagonist, Willard comes in the film by showing how he is already damaged by his first voyage in Vietnam. You can tell by his first actions that he is going crazy remembering the things he had done and seen in Vietnam. He …show more content…
The U.S military is getting people killed by trying to kill one of the highest military officials. It is confounding to know why the U.S military puts the assassination of Kurtz as a priority, even though, he is insane; people around the U.S military are being killed. Willard points out deceits in a scene where he contemplates “We’d cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid. It was a lie.” They are fighting supposedly for a good cause, but their actions are more showing more of a cruelty. From the beginning of the film till the end of the film it shows the horror that people have done not only to themselves, but to everyone else near or around them. Horror causes for you to lose who you truly are, and Willard did not let the darkness of horror overcome who he truly was. Willard faces his inner darkness and chooses not to let it over power