Review of Heart of Glass (1976) by J K — 13 Oct 2007
This film has never been matched. Who else but Werner Herzog would try? Notoriously, the entire cast was hypnotized to approximate the utter superstition of a late medieval Bavarian city-state.
What would a society be like, where people still believe in sorcery? Where the natural environment, untamed, is totally pitiless in taking life, limb and sustenance? Herzog's answer: to the soothsaying cowherd, cognizant of the German future, the town appears as a society under hypnosis.
What would the inhabitants of such a society think if they could see what West Germany was destined to become by the year 1976: the alienation, the atomization, the materialism, the looming ecological catastrophes, above all-- the RATIONAL? Werner Herzog's answer: Total, shrieking terror. See it NOW.
This review of Heart of Glass (1976) was written by J K on 13 Oct 2007.
Heart of Glass has generally received positive reviews.
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