Sunday, November 20, 2011
Willard
I wonder what happens to Willard once he returns home... does he succumb to his demons? At the start of the movie, has he just returned from a previous assassination? Maybe he hates his life of brutality, but the only cure he knows of is to murder more people. I think Willard just wears his emotions on his sleeve, but to such an extent that he becomes animalistic instead of human at certain points.
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Interesting to consider who is the main character of the novel and of the movie. Remember that Willard says that he can't tell the story of Kurtz unless he tells his own story, or is the the other way around? You say that you don't want to see the movie again, but you will. And when you do, pay very close attention to the images that are going through Willard's head at the very beginning of the movie before we actually see him in the hotel room. I think some of the images are from his mission to "rescue" Kurtz. Has this mission already happened and is he back in the hotel room waiting on his next mission? Or has he gone back home and by talking to us, he's actually talking to Kurtz's son. Do you remember what the crazy photo journalist said,"We are all his (Kurtz's)children?!!
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