The film is so real and simple, so indifferent to skills, so religiously holding the weight of dreams, it just needs to be filmed bravely, not to be worshipped by posterity
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The film subverts the relationship between man and nature, emphasizing the human spirit and the domination of nature, which adds a bright and optimistic color to the film's solemn style. Photographer Thomas Mauchi’s excellent and styling photography fully expresses the magnificence and magic of the Amazon jungle, creating a mysterious paradise in the Herzo format. People, rivers and fantasy harmoniously form a wonderful landscape, which makes people have infinite associations and deep thoughts. The film not only has magnificent images and a strong sense of modeling, but also has strong philosophical support, which embodies the profound social significance and the brilliance of human nature. It doesn't pay attention to telling stories that cause success, it is relatively loose and free in structure, and it does not pay attention to the logic and contradictions between the plots, and it has a prose style. In order to express a certain philosophical thought or emotional atmosphere, sometimes even the dramatic charm of the story itself is sacrificed. Through the depiction of extreme behaviors of characters, Herzog studied the characters of these marginal people from the perspective of anthropology and existentialism, and expounded the philosophy of life
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Ge close to the black humor of the story, Herzog to be a grand solemn attitude to take out one of the surreal composition, in ritual-like narrative gradually fall off, the viewer has to take this seriously with an absurd hero dream. A generalization closer to the theme of the film is not the victory of dreams and will, but the uselessness of dreams. The most contagious scene of the ship overturning the mountain in the film is the biggest useless effort. The dream mad Fitzcaraldo has little in the end, and the effect of dreams is small, but it is still so charming. That is because the process is the carrier of dignity and meaning, not the result. As firm as a believer, with the foolishness of a fool, the magnificent dreams or blind firmness of Fitzcaraldo and the natives are all useless dreams in secular meaning, but they are all mind-blowing. The big ship slowly crossed the top of the mountain and swept in the river deep in the rainforest. The loudspeaker made the sound of opera. In these useless moments and details, the poetry gushed out. Fanatic for useless things, surreal, because surreal, so magical, so moving
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