Eric Morgan-- Apocalypse Now

Through this movie the depiction of war is turned into a metaphor insinuating the immorality of the human race. People when put into a place where killing is alright the animal nature of those people is provoked and brought out to the forefront. This is first demonstrated by the first sergeant the main character encounters who basically destroys whole towns in order to fulfill one of his desires, surfing. You know that something has to be wrong when the value of somebody's life is less then shredding the next wave. Then the movie progresses as the main character and the boatmen travel up river, they encounter a night USO show with playboy models. There the soldiers are basically depicted as uncontrollable animals just wanting and desiring for the women without self control what so ever. The as the movie comes to an end the main character reaches his destination with is filled of people who seemingly are brain washed and are completely non-human or more fully natural humans without morals or God. The only thing that they were motivated by was fear of their superior who had obviously gone completely crazy. The journey up the river was symbolic to the de-evolution of the human race and ended with mindless drones. This was a great semi-creepy movie that I found quite interesting.