Werner Herzog On Deeper Truth

Warner Herzog speaks about "the ecstasy of truth" with film critic Desson Thomson.
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[@chungusbooper]

Spoiler: the secret to deeper truth was held by only one creature on Earth - the depressed penguin that waddled into the Antarctic mountains and took the burden of that truth to his small, flippered grave.

[@AD98.]

I had an out of body experience reading your words.

[@Lopfff]

Best comment in a long time

[@bsku0765]

But jokes aside, I think that's what Aguirre was gazing at the very end of the film, immersed in his profound delusion

[@pikiwiki]

The "accountant's truth." What a descriptive and accurate term

[@carolineparks2966]

An ecstasy of truth 🌸

[@horasefu1438]

It is very good to see that Werner Herzog knows of the Ancient Greek "aletheia", very good indeed. Kudos

[@motchie]

He learnt ancient Greek and Latin in school. His modern Greek is only in relation to the ancient Greek. So no surprises

[@NickNyce]

Werner, simply the best

[@malorious]

title too

[@rogerdavidson6236]

If he finds there's an ecstasy of truth in great poems, then he should try Ecstasy - he'll go MAD FOR IT

[@pjamesbda]

There is the bean counter truth, and the truth words can't describe, ... but this is a wonderful attempt. Wish there were more, but to speak the truth you say almost nothing.

[@flaviaromano9834]

Bravo !

[@malorious]

Werner's even sexier than he thinks he is. (Please correct the spelling of his name in your info section, AFI!)

[@soylentcompany5235]

Warner 😭😭 12 years later now and they still havent changed it

[@dimabbq]

bet he'd get on with lennart green

[@stefank7144]

Bright man.. of course german... with Croatian genes, just like Tesla 😁

[@concernedpersoninmexico]

Beautiful vagueness. I guess he just can talk about his conception of truth by means of circumlocutions; avoiding any direct reference; avoiding giving a straight definition, although he tries to imply it; although he supposes that it is possible to talk about it, by means of certain uses of language, such as cinema. Still, verbosity regarding truth, the copious amounts of hyperbolic adjectives to illuminate a supposedly extraordinary event as the unveiling of reality, the manifestation of truth, even when it comes from such a consecrated artist like Herzog, should be taken with skepticism. Expressions as 'deeper truth', 'reaching the core of reality', loaded with excessive romantic semantic, might just well be an excuse for bad poetry and art (hasn't poetry, along with the disenchantment of the world, consumed itself, reduced itself to nothing?). We might feel something special when we read good poetry or contemplate good art, but does that mean we're experiencing the truth? or, more precisely, a 'deeper truth'? The simple "you just know it," as a reason to believe it, just doesn't work anymore nowadays, for many crazy fucks, who believe insane stuff, simply 'know that it was the truth'; we might feel some sort of illumination, some sort of extasis, but who says that is truth? Any immediate sensation of enlightenment could be a self-deception. What is the guarantee that we have that it is the truth beyond a blind belief? The truth may be, in fact, to our horror and dread, something very superficial, accountant-like, kafkian, monstrous and grotesque, and trying to think otherwise could be an effort to run away from the awfulness of the human condition. Please, all of you who read this long perorate, excuse me: I'm terribly bored, in a bad mood, and I have relentless insomnia. I'm like the drunkard in the well known, small, piss-smelling bar at the skirts of town, that, very late at night, almost when it is closing down, and the dawn is smoothly announcing the new day on the horizon, says insane stuff because he doesn't want to, or can't, go home.

[@shadowplayfilms7963]

haha! The climax of your comment would make a great movie onto itself. Very well said, I feel illuminated ;)

[@robertsolem9234]

Have you read The Castle? It's a good book.

[@Cakewalkingbaby]

It is actually “our own truth”