Fitzcarraldo
Basically a crazy european opera fan pulls a pretty big steamship up a mountain in the Peruvian jungle with the help of hostile natives. Who is the crazy european? Well really it's German genius filmaker Werner Herzog who actually sets himself a much harder task than the crazy european the film's actually about. Absolutely beautiful visual film, shot like a documentary in places with lots of focus on background activity that you really believe would be happening if they wern't there filming it. I was a bit uncomfortable with the jungle clearing scene but then at least Herzog didn't shrink from showing the destructiveness that flows out of human creativity and imagination.
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