The Heart of Darkness and the Trauma of Modernity

Colonialism is a process that brought Modern Man facing the 'unknown', the most remote places on Earth where men from different ages became nothing in front of the wilderness of Nature, that is ultimately the inner core of Human Being. Through the analysis of Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now' and Herzog's 'Aguirre - the wrath of God', the focus moves to the side effects of Colonialism, when nowadays societies are now dealing with the same wilderness in the centre of their modern cities, their everyday lives.