The plot of the film is not so thrilling, but the atmosphere rendering is excellent. The whole film is filled with nervous tension and depression almost everywhere. The beautiful tropical rainforest landscape on both sides of the Amazon River, under the theme of the film's focus on the protagonist's crazy, paranoid and frenzied personality, has become almost a cage-like high barrier that oppresses people's nerves. Coupled with an excellent voiceover that looks empty and deep, it is suffocating. The calls of birds and insects directly taken from natural scenes in the film did not serve as an aid to create a picturesque scenery along the banks of the river, but constituted a kind of terrifying noise that would deprive people of hearing. Aguirre's voyage is a voyage to the sick soul and crazy nightmare of human beings. Herzog's works have always attached importance to the insinuation and metaphor of the landscape to the human heart, and the film has brought this into full play. The film allegorizes historical events. The adventures of European colonial invaders in the 16th century turn into the crazy behavior of a passionate and lonely fanatic in the film. The historical background is stripped out, and human nature is the subject of the director’s attention. It also expresses the collapse of a certain social order and the failure of fantasies in the face of reality.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God evaluation action
2021-12-21 08:01
Extended Reading
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Wiley 2022-03-25 09:01:10
A desperate and failed adventure revolving around ambition, love, sacrifice, power and madness, a fundamental allegory about the human condition.
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Maria 2022-03-25 09:01:10
The photography and art of the destruction wind, the story consumes itself (action cannot create results), the lens repeats this consumption (the abandonment of the horse, the rotation in the same direction, all repeat itself), leaving the impulse to break, reflect itself, a kind of mad beauty
Aguirre, the Wrath of God quotes
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Don Lope de Aguirre: My men measure riches in gold. But it's more. It's power and fame.
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Brother Gaspar de Carvajal: [shot with an arrow] This arrow cannot hurt me.
[touches blood drawn by the arrow]
Brother Gaspar de Carvajal: This is not rain.
Don Lope de Aguirre: Don't forget to pray, otherwise God - could come to a bad end.