Of course, on its surface it looks like just another violent shooter rather than some modern-day Heart of Darkness.
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Reading Heart of Darkness is more like using a book as a mirror to see more clearly who you are.
He once wrote an essay criticizing Joseph Conrad, author of "Heart of Darkness, " as a racist for his depiction of Africans as savages.
It was an almost Bruegelian journey into some kind of mad heart of darkness, and it thrilled me in a panicky sort of way.
No doubt the thrill of "the heart of darkness" was part of that, but I hope it was more than the lure of the primitive.
My first reading of Heart of Darkness came in the late 1980s, at the time when in Poland much was being said about the atrocities committed in the name of various totalitarian ideologies.
Conversely, a game like Spec Ops: The Line hit me so hard because it was at once a new level of storytelling in video games and a throwback to films like Apocalypse Now and the Joseph Conrad novella, Heart of Darkness.
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This, I think, could open the doors wide for all sorts of new information while not explaining the outcome of either game any better and while leaving the more distant past still shrouded in mystery, though perhaps less so as we uncover new clues and lore in our ongoing archaeological expedition into this digital heart of darkness.
Mr Vann uses two sequences to transform what could be another routine tale of small-town life, hurling the book into the outer darkness of the heart.
It was a few years later that I realised the possibility of yet another interpretation of Kurtz's final words: the horror of realising his own miserable inadequacy, the darkness in his own heart.
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