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Release Date: 15 August, 2000 Retail Price: $29.98 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: |
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Not Bad.
'Woyzeck' was a slow-moving but interesting film about a German soldier trying to control his nerves before he loses his mind. The story is set in a tiny German town during what seems like World War I. There seems to be underlying Anti-Semitism growing within the psyche of the town. Every character fully developed in the story has something wrong with him or her. Woyzeck seems like your typical, clueless, brain-washed soldier, but underneath the shallow exterior, he has interesting insights about life. A doctor he know is impressed with the way he sees things.
At the same time, Woyzeck looks like he is about to snap at any moment. Something in his past or something happening in his life has permanently destroyed his fragile mind forever. What I liked about this film was that I could feel like I was living in that time period in that country. There was a certain level of authencity to the film that was comforting. Many people will be bored by the movie, while others might be confused at to what the point is. Althought there might not be a single point to the film, it is well done and the finals scenes are breath-taking to watch.
A caustic tragedy!
Buchner was possibly a premature flame that vanished too soon. His irreparable loss meant a sensible enigma in the German Literature. He died at 23 but his talent and conceptual maturity anticipated by far almost a century respect to his fellows colleagues.
Think about the historic period.: 1836. The nationalist movements invade the exacerbated and febrile imagination of a big literary current. Lord Byron, Goethe and Chateaubriand represented the outpost writers in Europe signed by the Operatic spirit and Romanticism was the fashion emblem.
So under this perspective you have to adjust your glasses and visualize the hyperbole and excesses so typical of this movement. An ordinary man plunges into madness and murder with plain conscious. In many ways this unrestrained outburst of self destruction is linked to Existentialism Literary and German Expressionism with seventy years of advantage. A premonitory and incisive study of the inner demons who haunt in most of us. As always Klaus Kinski gives a stand out performance with this personage who as Atlas has to carry this heavy burden. Herzog is towering behind the camera.
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