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#397 - The View from Dover Beach (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-25 03:59:56
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2024-06

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After Mondo Cane it was time to watch a good movie, so we dipped back into the oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Popularly known as "the one where he hypnotized the entire cast," HEART OF GLASS (1976) and its apocalyptic vision offer some unique insights into the German maverick's view of civilization.

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Tom

Just dropping in the comments to note the odd synchronicity of your conversation about the disenchantment of the world and the Romantic response, the sense that something important was lost in the transition to the 'iron cage' (Weber) of modernity. I've been working my way through the book 'A Secular Age' by Charles Taylor (whom you also mentioned recently on the pod - I didn't realize he had an electoral history with the NDP), and disenchantment is of course the cornerstone of his analysis of what 'secular' and 'modernity' means. This film sounds like an exemplar. Great episode, I've never seen any of Herzog's narrative films, only his documentaries. This sounds like a strange and compelling place to start, along with maybe Fitzarraldo and Aguirre the Wrath of God.

Geri Danton

Hypnosis absolutely is real, which isn't to say that every grandiose claim made about what it can do is true or that it made any difference to the performances in this movie. There have been a number of studies regarding its efficacy for things like smoking cessation. I myself have been hypnotized.