8.29.2005

She's got the smoke in her eyes.

I saw the latest Werner Herzog movie tonight, "Grizzly Man". The movie is total Herzog: one man's misguided obsession with a nonexistent goal seems to be the only thing sustaining his life, and eventually he's killed for it. A truly great, great film. I really enjoyed it. Herzog does something that's rare in documentaries about single subjects: he doesn't romanticize his hero, he treats him as the flawed and ultimately mad man that he really is. He doesn't shy away from showing him plumbing the depths of absolute insanity, and he openly and explicitly disagrees with his subject at a few points (Herzog serves as the narrator).

Still digesting it, but a truly fantastic movie.

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