Cinema, cinema!

Hosted by Matt Barber on Dec. 8th. Heart of Darkness is our homework movie book.
Note: Heart of Darkeness is a very short story.

Heart Of Darkness
Loosely based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and evil, the novel foreshadows many of the themes and techniques that define modern literature.

Apocalypse Now
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. Also stars Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.

Carey and I just saw 3:10 to Yuma last night and we both enjoyed it. Aaron, you worked on a very nice piece of art. One thing in the film that didn’t work for me, or rather confused me — I’m not sure if it worked or not — was when Ben stops choking Dan as Dan tries to get Ben to the train. Why do you guys think Ben stopped and agreed to go along with Dan? It seemed to be a strange move for Ben’s character.

Also, the film reminded me of The Departed in how it seemed to say that justice was not brought about through right structures, but through just people.