This is The End

Apocalypse Now begins with the beating sound of a whirling helicopter and a blank screen that fades into a panorama of jungle trees. The fading-into of the opening image accompanied by the hypnotic sounds of the helicopters suggests an awakening or opening of an eye into a reality plagued with belligerent images. This "reality" is however, distorted first by the juxtaposition of a close up of a man's face right-side up, and by the whirling of a ceiling fan. All three of these transparent images played at once, the mans face, the ceiling fan accompanied by the sounds of the helicopter, contribute to a distorted reality of someone who is on slipping in and out of consciousness on the brink of insanity. But the meshing of the different images suggests their interrelation, and the sequence of their appearance (first the image of the war scene and then he man's face) mirrors a suggestion of cause and effect- war the cause, has brought upon insanity the effect. And maybe layering of these images implies that war itself is ludicrous and that the poeple fighting in it are drones of a hypnosis that war has put them in.