“Now they are content; there is something to extinguish again.”
Herzog, in making Lessons of Darkness, sets a prime example of the great challenge that awaits talented documentary filmmakers: how does one create a beautiful film of terrible things without romanticizing the evil? The images in this film are unlike any other. They hold tremendous beauty and invoke such awe in the viewer, but do they do so at the cost of conveying the true grotesque nature of the items they show?
“Now they are content; there is something to extinguish again.”
Herzog, in making Lessons of Darkness, sets a prime example of the great challenge that awaits talented documentary filmmakers: how does one create a beautiful film of terrible things without romanticizing the evil? The images in this film are unlike any other. They hold tremendous beauty and invoke such awe in the viewer, but do they do so at the cost of conveying the true grotesque nature of the items they show?