Techniques In Apocalypse Now

Retell: In the film Apocalypse Now, scenes focus on the use of reconciling two opposing views of the same reality. In the scene, Willard aboard the navy patrol boat crosses paths with a Vietnamese sampan. At the moment, Willard is asking the men on the navy boat to ignore the sampan and continue on their journey. But, according to the protocol the Chief makes Chef search the sampan to look for any evidence of trafficking of supplies. A Vietnamese woman on board runs towards a basket which alarms the soldiers. As a result, Mr. Clean and the other soldiers to suddenly open fire on the Sampan, massacring all citizens on the sampan. However, only the woman turns out to be barely alive, the soldier discovers that the woman was only trying to save a puppy. Chief wants to take the woman on board the navy boat and try getting her to a doctor to help her live. But, Willard shots the women killing her and tells Chef that “I told you [to Chief] not to stop. Now let’s go” (Apocalypse Now).
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In the summer of Grade 6, sometime during the day of October, I also experienced the use of reconciling two opposing views of the same …show more content…
Cordelia was not able to exaggerate her love for her father as much as her sisters. She did not believe in blinding her father with lies like her sisters. Cordelia responds to Lear, by telling her father that after marriage half her love will be towards her husband and only the other half will be for her father. Hearing this, Cordelia’s father becomes extremely angered and feels offended by her daughter replay. Lear thinks that Cordelia did not love him. But, Cordelia loves her father the most as she respected him by not telling lies and being truthful. In Cordelia’s point of view, she was telling the truth about her love for her father, but Lear was blind to understand the true meaning of Cordelia actions.