Lessons of Darkness (Lektionen in Finsternis) is a 1992 film by German director Werner Herzog. Image File history File links Lessons of darkness Taken from www. ... Image File history File links Lessons of darkness Taken from www. ... Werner Herzog was born Werner Stipetic on September 5, 1942 in Munich. ...
An effective companion to his earlier film Fata Morgana. Herzog again perceives the desert as a landscape with its own voice. Virtually devoid of commentary (aside from a repeat of his "Sci-Fi" impressions of desert landscapes), the film concentrates on the periphery of the first Gulf War - specifically on the waste and morbid imagery of the burning oil fields. As with virtually all of Herzog's films, music is his guide to the viewer, the camera remaining predominantly static and impartial. A fata Morgana, named after Morgan le Fay, the faery shapeshifting half-sister of King Arthur, is a mirage, an optical phenomenon which results from a temperature inversion. ... C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ...
They are filmed the same as the mirages and sand - an equal part of this strange land which he has brought to us in a film so strange and audacious that only one man could have filmed it.
He is not crying out against the Gulf War, or war in general, but the madness of human nature and unpretentious as always, places himself in the mix of mankind, not out of blame's reach.
Lessons of Darkness, unlike it's title may suggest, is anything but didactic or inflammatory, yet hits the core of what drives humanity to such disturbing extremes and how quickly we turn a blind eye to our ignorant, short-sighted actions.
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