WRATH AND MERCY (4 OF 5)
Scripture: Habakkuk 3:1-15
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Wrath and Mercy (4 of 5)
Series: Lament, Protest, and Trust: The Book of Habakkuk
Wyman Richardson
Habakkuk 3:1-15
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One of the more haunting and unsettling films I have ever seen is Werner Herzog's 1972 ''Aguirre, The Wrath of God,'' starring the eccentric and explosive actor Klaus Kinski. These selections from the Wikipedia article on the film give a good sense of what is happening and of Kinski's character's (Aguirre's) descent into madness:
In 1560, several score of Spanish conquistadors, and a hundred Indian slaves, march down from the newly conquered Inca Empire in the Andes mountains into the jungles to the east, in search of the fabled country of El Dorado...
...[After leading a successful mutiny] Aguirre proves to be an oppressive leader, so terrifying that few protest his leadership...
...On the raft again, the group of slowly starving, feverish men begin disbelieving everything they see, even when shot with arrows. The group stares in disbelief at a wooden ship perched in the highest branches of a tall tree, which Aguirre orders be brought down and refurbished, but Brother Carvajal refuses. In a series of final attacks by unseen assailants, the remaining survivors including Aguirre's daughter are killed by arrows. Aguirre alone remains alive on the slowly drifting raft. The raft becomes overrun by monkeys. The crazed Aguirre tells them: ''I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter, and with her I will found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We shall endure. I am the Wrath of God... who else is with me?'' The final shot is of him waiting for the monkeys to respond.
Throughout the film, Aguirre becomes increasingly mad, referring to himself as the wrath of God and, in general, evidencing a complete lack of attachment to reality. Earlier in the film Herzog has Kinski stare directly into the camera and say, ''I am the wrath of God. The earth I walk upon s ...
Series: Lament, Protest, and Trust: The Book of Habakkuk
Wyman Richardson
Habakkuk 3:1-15
Read Habakkuk 3:1-15
One of the more haunting and unsettling films I have ever seen is Werner Herzog's 1972 ''Aguirre, The Wrath of God,'' starring the eccentric and explosive actor Klaus Kinski. These selections from the Wikipedia article on the film give a good sense of what is happening and of Kinski's character's (Aguirre's) descent into madness:
In 1560, several score of Spanish conquistadors, and a hundred Indian slaves, march down from the newly conquered Inca Empire in the Andes mountains into the jungles to the east, in search of the fabled country of El Dorado...
...[After leading a successful mutiny] Aguirre proves to be an oppressive leader, so terrifying that few protest his leadership...
...On the raft again, the group of slowly starving, feverish men begin disbelieving everything they see, even when shot with arrows. The group stares in disbelief at a wooden ship perched in the highest branches of a tall tree, which Aguirre orders be brought down and refurbished, but Brother Carvajal refuses. In a series of final attacks by unseen assailants, the remaining survivors including Aguirre's daughter are killed by arrows. Aguirre alone remains alive on the slowly drifting raft. The raft becomes overrun by monkeys. The crazed Aguirre tells them: ''I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter, and with her I will found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We shall endure. I am the Wrath of God... who else is with me?'' The final shot is of him waiting for the monkeys to respond.
Throughout the film, Aguirre becomes increasingly mad, referring to himself as the wrath of God and, in general, evidencing a complete lack of attachment to reality. Earlier in the film Herzog has Kinski stare directly into the camera and say, ''I am the wrath of God. The earth I walk upon s ...
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