"Gaze into the Abyss"

Abby 2022-02-04 08:15:34

This is not quite like Werner Herzog's documentary. To be honest, I still like his presentation of human beings and nature without limits. The excessively guided interview forms and the over-designed advancement are obviously not in harmony with their usual miraculous capture.

How could this personal interpretation of life and death from the form of belief and political form get into his eyes, and he still couldn't understand it after watching the whole film? Could it be that he suffered some kind of blow from the death penalty? A very private catharsis? Because compared with the personal creation history of documentaries he formed before, the pattern is really much smaller.

Of course, the above is only for the director, but purely from the perspective of the film, its sincerity is undeniable, and the narrative context is not out of the way. It's just that such a subject really doesn't need the master to do it himself.

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Extended Reading
  • Douglas 2022-04-24 07:01:26

    The interview details are very moving, but as a documentary, the tendency is too obvious

  • Wilbert 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    It was the first time I watched Herzog's documentary, and of course it was very accurate, but there were some things I couldn't understand.

Into the Abyss quotes

  • Fred Allen: Hold still and watch the birds. Once you get up into your life like that, and once you feel good about your life, you do start watching what the birds do. What the doves are doing. Like the hummingbirds. Why are there so many of them.