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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2012 8:48:34 GMT -6
"Horror... You have to make a friend of Horror." A famous good scene of Apocalypse now.
But is Kurtz insane or did he got it all ? And what about Horror ? I would appreciate your comments and opinions.
By His loathsome tentacles!
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Post by sin on Apr 28, 2012 16:24:30 GMT -6
You have to get in bed with horror, be close bed fellows but always remember the horror and it's use. You can either be used by it, or use it.
CS
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Post by jtellio on May 2, 2012 5:44:36 GMT -6
To Yrreiht: I think the screenplay for Apocalypse Now was based on Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'. Therefore Kurt represented the metaphysical 'Evil' at the end of the voyage through Vietnam. It would be accurate to say that he was perpetuating his own schizoid personality, evident through the Vietnamese he had partly subjugated; other fragments of psyche appeared normal, like the book reading. His killing had therefore precipitated his madness. Perhaps it was representative of US stance on Vietnam as a whole.
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Post by cortwilliams on Nov 5, 2012 13:02:53 GMT -6
Excellent question Master Yrreiht! My opinion? Both. Kurtz traveled into the depths of atavistic darkness lurking within his psyche and underwent a nightmarish process of self-transformation.
"Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedom from the opinions of others...even the opinions of yourself?"
Kurtz sought to liberate himself not only from the bonds of conventional social morality. He sought to sever himself from his own conscience. To act without remorse is to feel like a god: While a part of Kurtz felt remorse, he walled that part of himself off, allowing him to exist in a divided state: One side the monstrously liberated god-man, the other the tortured conscience.
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor … and surviving."
Kurtz dreamed of a creature splitting itself in two and surviving: Surviving the process of internal division which he visited on himself. He did, in a sense, but in the end the pain of attempting to endure his dual existence led him to welcome death.
A quote from Apocalypse Now Redux, the French expatriate Roxanne speaking of her deceased and war-traumatized husband: "And he said to me, 'I don't know whether I am animal or a god.' But you are both."
Kurtz became both:Beast and god-man. Beware, ye would-be lycanthropes, lest you look into the bestial depths of your own soul and know the agony of self-knowledge.
Hail Satanis! Cort
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