The plot of the film is not so thrilling, but the atmosphere rendering is excellent. The whole film is filled with nervous tension and depression almost everywhere. The beautiful tropical rainforest landscape on both sides of the Amazon River, under the theme of the film's focus on the protagonist's crazy, paranoid and frenzied personality, has become almost a cage-like high barrier that oppresses people's nerves. Coupled with an excellent voiceover that looks empty and deep, it is suffocating. The calls of birds and insects directly taken from natural scenes in the film did not serve as an aid to create a picturesque scenery along the banks of the river, but constituted a kind of terrifying noise that would deprive people of hearing. Aguirre's voyage is a voyage to the sick soul and crazy nightmare of human beings. Herzog's works have always attached importance to the insinuation and metaphor of the landscape to the human heart, and the film has brought this into full play. The film allegorizes historical events. The adventures of European colonial invaders in the 16th century turn into the crazy behavior of a passionate and lonely fanatic in the film. The historical background is stripped out, and human nature is the subject of the director’s attention. It also expresses the collapse of a certain social order and the failure of fantasies in the face of reality.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God evaluation action
2021-12-21 08:01
Extended Reading
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Melany 2022-04-22 07:01:32
The encroachment of regions is accompanied by the collision of cultures. The confrontation of hot and cold weapons cannot escape the cycle of physical limits. Even if it represents the wrath of God, who can follow them to reach the golden city of dreams.
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Holden 2022-04-21 09:02:30
There's no place for gold, it's a paranoid dictatorial madman with his own unrealistic fantasies who let everyone die together; alluding to Hitler and the like.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God quotes
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Don Lope de Aguirre: Perucho, don't you think the cannon might be a little bit rusty?
Perucho: It might.
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Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water... more than his ration, will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches. But whoever deserts...