When the clouds and mist, the rugged mountain road, and the staggering people walking down the steep mountain road jumped out of the frame, I felt the insignificance of man before nature again. And when such a spectacular scenery is paired with gloomy colors, we probably know that this expedition is a disaster. The expedition team realized that the environment was bad and they still did not give up their desire for gold even after the lack of food and clothing. They sent a small team to explore the way. After that, the main story revolved around this small team.
Disagreements among the squad members resulted in casualties among members, resulting in defections. The eyes of Aguir, the mastermind of the incident, can reveal his huge ambition, a little neurotic and irritable temperament. It is only when he treats his own daughter that he shows endless love, and this love is only because Aguirre needs to marry his daughter to ensure the pure blood of the offspring. He is really a crazy person, only such a crazy person would kill his own obstacles mercilessly, and even say: "I am the wrath of God, I want the earth to tremble when it sees me passing by!"
The whole story is in progress The director's control of the picture is very skillful. When a bamboo raft was trapped in the whirlpool and could not go ashore, the camera position was also placed on the opposite bank of the bamboo raft. The people on the bamboo raft were so helpless, and the people on the river bank had nothing to do. When going downstream, we can always see the arrows keep shooting towards the bamboo raft, but we never know where the arrows were shot from. The picture is always projected from the angle of the bamboo raft, it seems that we are also a member of the expedition team, and they go down the river with them. The snooping of the bamboo rafts by the cannibals on the river bank also made us nervous. They said: "Meat, the meat floats away". Under this mental, physical and natural oppression, at the end, almost only the mad Aguir is alive.
Roger Ebert said: "Several of Herzog's films have expressed the same theme: people are obsessed with the dream of success and even go through fire and water for it, and thus commit the "pride". A great sin, and finally crushed to pieces by the ruthless God." My understanding on this point is slightly different from that of the master.
Anyone who has read "The Seven Deadly Sins" should know that the seven deadly sins are the seven evils of human beings in Tianzhu religion, namely arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. The Spaniards decided to seek the Golden City is undoubtedly to seize wealth, show off power and wealth; Aguirre defected when Usaya gave the order to return, killing people who went against his will was nothing more than to realize his ambitions, all of which were Greed is at work. The greed for money, power, and status leads them to a dead end.
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