WAIA’s review published on Letterboxd:
"Down the river we go as the americanization falls as a curtain to lead us into the through horror, sickness and gruesome melt nightmare. that war really is. Down the river we all dance in the jungle. Down in the river we all lost our minds."
copied this from a message to a friend of mine:
I love how the film progressed. It started with an extremely strong hyperbole of americanization and the surrealist ideas of american culture amplyfying the greatness of war. As they went down the river the insanity increased and increased and the world turned grimmer and grimmer until they were in the symbolical hell of war. The grim dark and gruesome state was is in perfectly represented by the end of the movie shaving the beginning of the movie of fascination and praise to grim dark horrific and traumatizing realism
The break down of Colonel Kurtz's character from the man he respected in Willard's mind to the real completely ruined person he really is. In the damps of the jungle none can survive the horrors.