- Finally watched 'Cobra Verde' last night although it arrived >2 weeks ago. I need to be in the right mood to watch Herzog's movies. I don't know others, but his movies are often too intense to finish within one sitting, but I'd be thinking about them long after.
Perhaps Klaus Kinski was maddest in this movie among all Herzog's I've seen. He seemed to be ready to explode any time. His intensity is suffocating.
It's a movie about slave trading when Brazil was about to eradicate the slavery system, which 浮生mentioned already. The display of cruelty and animalisticness of human nature inevitably makes it really difficult to sit through the movie without stopping and yet it's hard to turn away for Herzog's cinematography and Kinski's performance. One of the interesting things about Herzog's movies is, in my eye, his sense of humor. At the climax, all the emotions he built up would be hanging because of an entirely unexpected insignificant landing, which caused somewhat a comic effect. Very odd. At one point, when the prince summoned Cobra Verde, he refused to go saying something like "I need to be somewhere with one foot in the ocean". Of course, the soldiers just seized him, tied him up and did something that was really comic. I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone who is going to see it. It's actually part of his formula, I think, because you see this in nearly all his work.
Herzog's a genius, time and again his work proves that.
I also saw his "Heart of glass" a few weeks ago. Now, that's a really odd one. It seemed to me more like a cinematic experiment.
浮生 wrote:
“Cobra Verde” aka Slave Coast —— Herzog和Kinski的疯狂组合。提它主要是上次guanzhong提到Amazing Grace，这部的时间刚好是巴西临近废除奴隶交易时。里面所有人都疯狂又野蛮，看时我一点也不喜欢，但是看完了总想着它。View at your own risk ：）
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