How does the American's entry onto the beach convey the destruction and confusion of the film?

The Americans entry onto the beach in Apocalypse now conveys destruction and confusion whilst also portraying the underlying messages of the film.

In the scene lots of different aspects contribute to the sense of confusion, one being the fast editing and the way this makes the switch between scenes more apparent which makes the editing not invisible and makes the scene harder to watch. The editing also add to the mayhem in the scene and makes you use all of your senses and almost makes the audience have a sensory overload.

In this beginning of the scene , Kilgore starts to play "Rise of the Valkyries" to put his men in the "fighting" state of mind, this portrays Kilgore as childish and playing a game rather than the tough and mature leader he is stereotypically supposed to be.

Throughout the scene, a wide variety of camera shots are used to suggest many different messages and emotion. Firstly we see a long shot of a brief rainbow, many have made references of the ideology of Eden or paradise beyond destruction , this then disappears and we see a  pararomic shot which pans over the destruction that has taken place. This juxtaposes the previous camera shot and reinforces the sense of confusion.

The characters also add to the sense of confusion by contradicting to their "known" personas, for example, Captain Willard stays calm and shows little to no emotion whereas in previous scenes he has been the character to show the most emotion; e.g the first time we meet him.