Friday, February 28, 2025

In grandiose splendor

This is a 1992 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. Shot in post-Gulf War Kuwait. The imagery of it is devastated and lifeless landscape. Oil fields in flames. It's an apocalyptic vision of destruction in the wake of war. The images are powerful, almost hypnotizing.

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Pouring burning poison to the dead

To her horror, a prison guard meets her son's killer in prison, who has been transferred there as a prisoner from another prison.  She i...