‘Razzle them. Dazzle them. Razzle dazzle them.’
That’s what Werner Herzog has
been doing on screen since the day he started film-making. Inspired on true story this is another
unexceptional under noticed Herzog film that he has made recently. Complex and
unusual character and chaos are Herzog’s panache. The protagonist of the film
is complex and unusual young man who stabbed and killed his own mother and than held two unknown hostages in a barricaded house to keep
the cops out of his home. The mother was too caring and over protective one and
he loved her too. So than what went wrong with the man or what made him turned
to this madness. One does not expect the direct and easy answer to that from
Herzog film! Through several flashbacks and situational incidents of his life
told by his fiancée and a play director, we see the enigma of this inscrutable
man who loves flamingoes and who claimed to have seen god. He started getting
strange, they said, either after his river rafting expedition trip to Peru with
friends or that passionate role playing of classical Greek tragedy that drawn
him to brooding crime.
‘Some people act a role, others
play a part’ said Michael Shannon and at other point he said, ‘I’m not going to
discover my boundaries. I am going to stunt my inner growth.’ And he played his
character so brilliantly. There’s not much to deliver as Herzog deliberately
skipped explaining him directly in the most part of the film and still through
his body language and expressions Shannon
makes an impressive act. There is one absolute Herzog moment in the film which
I loved so much. Watch the moment where Shannon ridiculously try that futile
act of moving down on escalating stairs running upside and watching those
unending round frames he said that it’s tunnel of time and perfect stage for
cosmic melodrama. What a brilliant punch!
Only one complain-can’t it end
better than this! As some of Herzog masterpieces are just irreplaceable for its
striking end-part.
Ratings-7.5/10
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