Critics’ Picks Video: ‘Aguirre: The Wrath of God’

November 23, 2009, 6:00 pm
Critics’ Picks Video: ‘Aguirre: The Wrath of God’
By MEKADO MURPHY

This week, A. O. Scott gives thanks for the filmmaker Werner Herzog and his 1972 film “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” which looks at the 17th Century conquests of Spanish conquistadors in Peru. It stars Mr. Herzog’s frequent collaborator Klaus Kinski. According to Mr. Scott, the film “paints an unsparing picture of colonial greed and the brutal encounter between human ambition and the wildness of nature.”

Have you seen “Aguirre: The Wrath of God?” Please share your thoughts on the film and what you consider to be Mr. Herzog’s best work.

November 23, 2009
6:46 pm

Dear Sir.
The film is set in a time and a place where law and justice are absent and has value only the strongest will. A law still applies in Peru and many parts of the world, starting with the countries called “developer” in relation to poor countries.
But it is also the story of an indomitable will to serve a deluded ambition, is the strength of the human being manage to overcome the forces of nature, even knowing that they may eventually take revenge.
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— Alonso Sarmiento