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Originally Posted by GforGroove
So i finally started my long delay task of watchign Werner Herzog films..
i saw Stroszek and im realy satisfied!!! This is the film that Ian Curtis was watchign when he suicide and well yes, is so hardcore after all that i sort of understand..
This movie really put me thinking. It is a really hard critique all of the idea of the American Dream (as it was before). So now i know the roots of Dogville!!  Besides this part, the movie is really moving and Bruno the main character is so sweet and strange at the same time.
I really really recommend this movie.
Anyway, im going to keep going with Herzog, what other films are good of him? He had so many. |
Ok Like He's like my God or something....he came to my college for a guest lecture and I met him and I gave him a standing ovation and its been like a turning point in my life. seriously, I know that sounds nutsy crazy stoopid.
You probably found Bruno strange and sweet at the same time because he's a committed sociopath, not unlike the standard person Herzog surrounds himself while making his movies. Stroszek was written specifically for the actor. Herzog made it because he really wanted to cast him in the cannes festival winning Woyszek but Kinski got that role.
As far as strange and sweet goes, you'll have to see The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (also entitled Every Man for Himself And God Against All). Same actor as Stroszek, playing a man who had never seen the light of day until he's an adult. you'll also probably like his narrative in "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" a documentary of a little german boy who wants to fly so badly he ends up joining the navy only to become a POW in Vietnam.
But I think things get really interesting when you explore his movies with Klaus Kinski, his other psychopath. Start off with "My Best Fiend" his recent documentary covering his love/hate relationship over the course of making the five films Kinski is in. Then do aguirre the wrath of god, fitzcarraldo, nosferatu, and woyzek. Avoid cobra verde. Its kind of lame.
Herzog is one of those directors where the more you know about him and his life the more interesting the films are. That's because more so than any other film maker I'm aware of, the line between his own life and his movies is blurry at best.
And just like Stoszek, its always helpful to see his work as not so much linear narratives, but dreams, poems, images.
And finally, if you're not annoyed yet. Read "Herzog on Herzog." A damn fine read by any account.