Heart of Darkness (novel)/YMMV

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  • Adaptation Displacement: Apocalypse Now
  • Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Considering how dense and omnifaceted the story is, this happens pretty often. There's a TON of ways to interpret Heart of Darkness[1], and many odd ones are surprisingly well-supported (though many are not). Here's an example.
  • Fair for Its Day
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Kurtz's house is surrounded by the heads of executed rebels, facing the house!
    • Especially when you think about it and realise that usually, you point the heads AWAY from you (as one is) to deter intruders.
  • Values Dissonance: The native Africans are repeatedly portrayed as violent, ignorant, subhuman cannibals... and those are the good ones.
    • But they're always shown as better (or at least, more humane) than the European colonists.
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  1. ↑ you can easily find Marxist, deconstructivist, feminist, or post-colonial interpretations, just to name a few
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