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Sooooort of. I read 'heart of darkness' when i was way too young, but 'apocalypse now' and 'spec ops: the line', while similar, are clearly biting at different targets.
Where the central theme of 'apocalypse now' might read as 'there is no civilized war, it is only ever madness, and to believe otherwise is not only madness, but incompetence. You play as children at heroism, and it is a lie. There are no heroes here. Not on your side, at least.'
'Spec ops: the line' could be read as 'what the fuck is erong with you people? Why do you even do this? What the fuck is even in it for you?' With literally the first scene being the implicit 'you've heard this story before, we both know you have, no part of this is new to you. so why the fuck are you so god damn stubborn about not fucking getting it?' Scolding less the pissed off 19 year olds who do the atrocities, and more the entire society that keeps allowing them to be so staggeringly violently stupid.