Werner Herzog as a documentarian seeks out subjects within the extremes, whether that be their life, or their particular experience. Well with Dieter Dengler, who he later also made a feature dramatic version of his story with Rescue Dawn, he has really both. This with such an idiosyncratic man at the center of it, along with an almost unbelievable story of his escape in Vietnam against all odds. As typical for Herzog he grants such detail to such life, with his always fascinating perspective that is so often one of appreciation but also almost a strange fear in a way. This in examining what the extremes do bring to a man in this sort self-reflection, that is usually within the subtext of his films, however still found.
5/5
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