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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An extinguished lantern

It was worth watching, a nice story, well acted and told, but when it was boring, it was really boring. A few times, it got stuck in place f...