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Good gosh.
posted by MongoLloydSTAFFMOD on April 4, 2017 at 7:46 PM
Why is American sounding Michael Shannon speaking with that foreign sounding affect? It's not an accent, but a lack of contractions that when spoken in his coarse blue collar manner of speech just makes him sound like he's acting.
The score is really strange. Accordion, what?
Horrendous camera work.
"I only use the wheelchair when I'm tired of life," HAHAHAHAH. Dumb.
Anamorphic art, ooooooh. How edgy.
"Let's take a break and look at the train grave yard."
Banished to live on vast salt flats with 2 blind kids who don't speak her language. OK...
"Blind children have no stake in any regime." WTF
"The salt here is expanding." Ummm...
Giant champagne bottle in a motorized wheelchair...
The End
Reply by Renovatio
on April 6, 2017 at 8:02 PM
so... worth checking out? It's showing in a cinema nearby...
Reply by MongoLloyd
on April 7, 2017 at 8:28 AM
It's actually in a theater???? Shocked. If true, I give it 2 weeks at the most so better go see it soon :-p
"The characters in Salt and Fire aren’t granted interior lives. Instead, Herzog gives everyone a strange case of verbal diarrhea."
Reply by Renovatio
on April 7, 2017 at 9:47 AM
I doubt it will last more than a week... I'm lucky with the theatres in my area, they tend to squeeze in at least one non-blockbuster movie a week... dramas, international, etc...
Reply by Will Barks
on April 7, 2017 at 12:28 PM
I saw it in Vienna a few weeks ago. They had a Werner Herzog retrospective at the Filmarchiv Austria. Originally they wanted this to be the opener in attendance of Werner Herzog. They changed it though to Fata Morgana. To save Herzog the embarrassment? I caught it a few days later. If you're into Herzog, give it a try. It still contains many Herzogian themes and some interesting thoughts. Then again you can see the whole production was very rushed. Probably Herzog's weakest film so far.