On Monday we watched a few clips from the movie Apocalypse Now that related to Heart of Darkness. Viewing parts of this film was the best part of the week because it modernized many of the themes in Heart of Darkness to make them more understandable.
This movie brought the events and lessons in Heart of Darkness into a different time period and place with different characters. Doing this allowed us as an audience to both better understand the already existing elements of postmodernism and modernism, and additionally appreciate them in a new way. By seeing another perspective on Heart of Darkness, we find new aspects and new ideas. It is important to view many interpretations so we can be opened up to different ideas to help us learn even more about any topic.
By physically viewing the actions, characters, and people in Apocalypse Now, it settles some of the confusion that the novel brings. It puts new and powerful pictures in your head. When you compare the images in the movie to the images that you have created in your mind while reading the novel, you find both differences and similarities. And it is these differences that make comparison and analyzing different things so important.
In short, the viewing of Apocalypse Now was the best of the week because of the new spin it provided to Heart of Darkness. It helped me to better understand the novel, and get more insights out of it.
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