Oh, I flushed Hunger Games out of my brain by going to see Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life.
Its every bit as good as a Herzog doc about a death row inmate and the story of a triple murder should be. Then you find out that he assembled the whole film from shooting just 5 hours of his own footage and you realise once again that the man's a genius.
Honestly, the natural instinct and insight into the human heart and mind that Herzog has - never better evidenced than the response he gets with the question, 'Tell me about an encounter with a squirrel' - genuinely marks him out as one of the greatest and most consistent documentary makers, if not filmmakers, alive.
Serious question: is there such a thing as a BAD Herzog film?
I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.
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