what do you make of "aguirre"? On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I watched Werner Herzog’s 2006 movie “Rescue Dawn” on > Showtime the other night. This is a movie based on Navy pilot Dieter > Dengler’s escape from a Laotian prison camp in 1966 that I could not help > lumping with similar efforts involving Sylvester Stallone or Chuck Norris. > Perhaps I am a glutton for punishment, but I then watched his 1997 > documentary “Dieter Dengler Needs to Fly” on Neflix online (my first stab at > this-not bad all in all), the first foray into glorifying a killer in > uniform. > > As many of you probably know, Werner Herzog has an attraction to the > grotesque that is only exceeded by David Lynch. Additionally, both have > questionable politics. Lynch was a Reaganite, but it is difficult to detect > any kind of political statement in his movies. For his part, Herzog claims > to be above politics but when it comes to the wars in Nicaragua and Vietnam, > his films clearly had a rightwing tilt even if they are couched in his > peculiar esthetic. > > full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/rescue-dawn/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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