Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

After experiencing the violence of war, it is difficult for a soldier to readjust back into society causing alienation and a strain to return home both physically and emotionally. In Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home” the main character Harold Krebs lies, is incapable of love and he struggles to readapt to his family and community. Krebs is a different person than before the war and eventually accepts the idea that he can never really go home. Hemingway illustrates the contrast of Krebs’ two lives, “There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar…. There is a picture which shows him on the Rhine with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs and the corporal look too big for their uniforms” (187). These images show the life he once had and the one that has forever changed him. The first picture shows him as the all-American boy, young, naïve and looks like the other boys. The second picture suggests that he is no longer a boy but a man. There are women in the picture and he doesn’t fit into the uniform which may imply that he is no longer the same person inside. It may also suggest that his role in the war may be exaggerated. Kobler believes, “Krebs like Hemingway did not actually do any fighting in the war” (379). The exaggerated account of his role is the true reason he feels nauseous when he lies about posing as a good fighting marine. The different poses associated with…

Vibrant, methodical, beautifully written and utterly terrifying – Apocalypse Now is the quintessential war film. Apocalypse Now is one of the most powerful anti-films to emerge from the Vietnam War Era. It is Francis Ford Coppola's most ambitious film yet and it is easy to see why. The film took over 10 years to make and is nothing short of a masterpiece in storytelling, visual themes and direction. The story of Apocalypse Now is loosely based on loosely on Heart of Darkness, a novel written…