I remember really digging it, I'll have to watch it again.
I did Heart of Darkness (the book, not the Doco) for English in High School and that's terrific as well. I remember the opening is almost purposely hard to follow, but eventually it calms down.
How do we feel about translating English colonialism & slavery of Africa in 1890's to America/Vietnam wartime in 60's/70's? There's no slavery in Vietnam, and you get the feeling America is quite happy to just bomb the shit out of it rather than colonising it (Kurtz being an eccentric outlier to America's plan of destruction?
I remember really digging it, I'll have to watch it again. I did Heart of Darkness (the book, not the Doco) for English in High School and that's terrific as well. I remember the opening is almost purposely hard to follow, but eventually it calms down.
How do we feel about translating English colonialism & slavery of Africa in 1890's to America/Vietnam wartime in 60's/70's? There's no slavery in Vietnam, and you get the feeling America is quite happy to just bomb the shit out of it rather than colonising it (Kurtz being an eccentric outlier to America's plan of destruction?