Friday, February 11, 2011
Film And Here's Werner Herzog's 1976 Educational Film Nobody Wants to Play with Me
Posted by Mark Asch on Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:54 PM
And it's on YouTube! Here's Part 1:
Some thoughts, and Part 2, after the jump.
The simple, childlike dialogue, and the guilelessness of the structure, are appropriate for the intended audience, but also recognizably Herzogian in their arbitrary, almost comical intensity. The often whispered dialogue has an alien purity, and the narrative seems to proceed trustingly, by almost cosmic logical leaps. The outcast comes from a background so matter-of-factly gothic, he even has a talking crow for a pet.
The plasticity interior decoration, all brooding, synthetic primary colors against a neutral field, and the scratchy, miniature clothes, recall a late-Cold War-era Northern European childhood not so different, perhaps, than in Let the Right One In (or perhaps even your own). Let's move along to the thrilling and instructive conclusion:
Thoughts?
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