Apocalypse now

Apocalypse Now is a movie of the Vietnam experience. Not as much the war as the experience, the thing that made this war personal for each soldier. US Army Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) receives orders to infiltrate renegade special forces Colonel Kurtz's troops and terminate his command. "Terminate with extreme prejudice." Reports tell of Kurtz having gone insane, and using “unsound” methods while running his own private army in the jungle in Cambodia. Willard makes his way to Kurtz with the help of a patrol boat and its diverse crew, and a manic commander.
War--any war--is a traumatic experience. It puts a man’s sanity to the test. Emotions run unbelievably high, up to its extents and beyond. The undeniable fear, hatred, loss, guilt. Adrenaline courses through your body, messes with the mind. The human body wasn’t meant to experience such intense and forceful emotions all at once. Ther...