Saturday, May 7, 2011

The Dreamers



The sexual iconography in the movie has fascinated me.The human body is beautiful and the director has tried to explore the limits of human disgust.Such a movie can alter our notion of beauty and sex...it is an exploration into aesthetics.

Werner Herzog--Aguirre



I completed this movie only the second time i tried to watch it. The first time i could not connect to it.I felt the images hauntingly beautiful. The people in the movie are in search of the hidden land of El Dorado.Herzog not only speaks through his voice and images but also his silence. The jungle shown in the movie is a landscape of the mind.