apocalypse now

Apocalypse Now is a film I believe that is perfect for showing war time anxieties. Much like the Cold War the Vietnam war also mad people feel scared and crazy. People became very insecure and were always looking behind their backs for the next attack which is what the general feeling of war should and does feel like in the first place. I believe the theme of this film gives of the vibe of kill or be killed especially for martin sheen's character. He is always on alert and feels he has to complete his mission to feel safe. There is also a god-like feeling in this film. These tribe people look up to their leader as a god, they protect him and die for him but when he is killed the only consensus is that sheen to must be god if he can kill theirs. The sense of sacrifice in this film is overwhelming. The tribes people sacrifice a cow and sheen sacrifices the dying girl to get on with his mission. It is almost as if the message is that without sacrifice there is no moving forward, which is true throughout life in general people must always pick and choose and sacrifice for the greater good.

Blue Velvet

Blue velvet... where to start, this was an interesting movie to say the least. I found the characters of the film to blend in the most peculiar ways. Jeffery and Frank although completely different on the outside one may never know just how similar they really were. Frank was a mad sadistic man whom would harm a person and never think twice about it, he was far from pure or innocent and that one could tell just by looking at him. Jeffery on the other hand seemed like the cookie cutter all american boy next door type, and for the most part her was. Except, deep down he wasn't so innocent. He himself would hit Dorothy and sleep with her with pleasure. Although you can tell deep down he feels bad about it, but even so he did like it making him a little far from innocent as well. The two female characters in the film were very similar to each other in ways that they were completely devoted to the men in their lives. They both loved jeffery and would do anything that he asked even if they didn't want to.

The colors in this film was also something for the viewers to marvel at. Aside from them being very washed out and desaturated there was a pop of color everywhere. With bright red cars, men in yellow suits and of course blue lights they would cover dorothy as if she were a work of art. I find that aspect to very interesting. Whenever Dorothy was shown she was either wearing blue, around blue or had some sort of blue light on her which i believe contrast with the premise of the film quite well. The color blue has a very cold and sad feeling, "i feel blue" which is how dorothy is shown feeling throughout the film for obvious reasons. The film looked like a painting of chaos. It wasn't the perfect pretty little pictures of people and landscapes it seemed to be the ever changing crazy world that we live in and I appreciate that aspect of the film quite well.