Tag: Nietzsche

• Tragic Fate of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz: Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”

  

  Preliminary remarks: There are several different versions of Apocalypse Now, including the theatrical release, the Redux version which is 53 minutes longer than the original and the 259 minutes long “VHS” version, which is now all but lost. This article is based on the Redux version, while the ending of the VHS version will be…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  June 7, 2018

  American cinema, Francis Ford Coppola

  Apocalypse, Art, Conrad, Divine, Hannah Arendt, Imperialism, Michelangelo, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Religion, The Doors, Tragic, Vietnam

• Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Like Father, Like Son”: Nature or Nurture?

  

  Hirokazu Koreeda’s Like Father, Like Son explores the meaning of the proverb in the film’s title and whether it can be the justification and the solution to the tragic choice characters in the film are forced to make. Ryota is a workaholic and a successful businessman, hardly spending time with his family; his wife tells him…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  March 24, 2018

  Cinema of Japan, Hirokazu Kore-eda

  Businessman, Childhood, Family, Genetics, Heidegger, Heritage, Japanese, Moral Dilemma, Morality, Nietzsche