Like many people, when I first saw Apocalypse Now I came away feeling like it was a potential masterpiece, but just never quite made it over the top of the hill. Redux is that masterpiece. This is the film that Coppula was making, out there in the Philippine jungle for all those years. The original editing was a Viet Nam War movie, not much more than that. This goes far beyond that. The passage dealing with the French expatriates in particular serves to take the film into a realm of another world, one where everyone is living in an illusion because they cannot face the reality around them. And that, we now are unable to avoid seeing, is what everyone in this movie is experiencing. And that translates back into many of ourlives as well. The cinematography remains some of the most exquisite I have ever seen. I saw this, as well as the original, on the big screen an experience for which I will forever remain grateful. The director of cinematography had a masters touch for his film and
