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List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 1970 DVD Release : 14 December, 1999 |
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Even Dwarfs Started Small description With a cast composed entirely of dwarfs, Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) tells a tale of asylum inmates taking over the asylum. The institution's governor is holed up in his own home with a rebel hostage to keep him company. As the inmates' wrangling for the release of their fellow captive comes to naught, all symbols of ordered society are mocked and brought to a shambles. Typewriters are smashed, flowers are set on fire, a dinner ceremony ends with the slapstick smashing of plates, a monkey is tied to a crucifix and paraded in solemn observance, chickens resort to cannibalism. All vestige of order is disrupted in Herzog's blackly humorous, fatalistic parable, leaving us with nothing but the mad, strident cackling of a dwarf. It's not just that the dwarfs are grotesques, but that we all are grotesques in this eerie little world, and it's only through Herzog's eye that we see this clearly. This deceptively simple story builds with amazing power from beginning to end, brutal and compassionate, uncompromising and mad. --Jim Gay |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Like a horrible car accident... |
| you simply can't look away. There is no plot, little sense, no "message" that you don't have to come up with yourself (perhaps the boon and bane of social rebellion). And that's what makes it wonderful--you can't wrench yourself from it and find yourself identifying with the rebels, even when they are out of control and destroying the fabric of social order itself. | |
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