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Title: a great movie, even the ending
Review: Ok...almost everyone agrees the first 2 hours of this movie are amazing. It is not a war movie, it is a movie about a journey (both physical and symbolic) in which one man finds that man's true existence is the heart of darkness. As for the ending...it is certainly unconventional. But it is extremely successful, from the books on Kurtz's table (two precursors to Eliot's "The Waste Land") to the omnipresent orange light (hell??). If you got nothing out of the ending, perhaps you should read Heart of Darkness. If you're still unimpressed, read Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil," for Kurtz is the argument against the Nietzschian superman. A powerful story, in both movie and novella form.
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