Actors: Josef Bierbilcher, Clemens Schietz
Director: Werner Herzog
I've seen ten Werner Herzog films now, and one element that runs through all of them is chaos. Disorder. The world is inexplicable, the universe a complete accident, and at any moment, something can happen that will change one's reality entirely.
Herzog films succeed when they put this chaos into central characters - Kinski's Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, or Nicolas Cage's Bad Lieutenant, or even Bruno S's Kaspar Hauser. They fail when they don't really have any action besides people getting heaped miseries and indignities on them. Heart of Glass is not one of these films, but it is incredibly strange, nonetheless - the entire cast was hypnotized before performing their scenes, or so the story goes. Some of their actions are fascinating, but in large part, the film is two people standing in a room, neither really talking to the other, and both speaking nonsense. It's an interesting curiosity, and there are some fascinating images, but the themes explored here are explored in other, better Herzog films.
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