Apocalypse now

The film apocalypse now really disturbed me when i saw it as the imagery is so shocking and when i was younger it gave me nightmares. Looking at it again the context of my studies it seems like a precursor to so many of the video games as i played a a teenager. It is mostly set in a jungle and the depravity of the people of become to be part of the camp/cult there is so shocking even now.Obviously this is really relevant to the competition as it is based on the book heart of darkness.Its interesting how this films story is so close to the book heart of darkness even though the book was written at the end of the 19 century and the film is set in the 1970s.It has been well documented how horrific the vietnamese war was and using heart of darkness as the basis for this film seems to me such a brilliant choice as the viewer/reader really gets drawn into the nightmare of the scenes portrayed.