/lit/ - Literature

>>1880818
Seen Strozek?

I'm not too keen on the early narrative, "weird" Herzogs. For me his greatest triumph will always be Lessons of Darkness. Shots in the aftermath of the First Gulf War, film glides over the ravaged Kuwaiti desert decorated with mirror pools of oil, some so large that they appear to be oceans. Towers of flame, caused by retreating Iraqi forces sabotaging pumpjacks, litter the landscape. Firefighters move giant, beastial machines to quell the flames; deep focus collapses the planes, engulfing the machines and crew inside an inferno. All of this is accompanied by hypnotic classical tracks and Herzog's rhythmic Bavarian voice.