Stroszek

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Blobbo X It's one of a kind at the very least. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/12/23 Full Review isla s This is a bleak and sobering watch - its quite thoughtful. At the end it turns somewhat surreal and I suppose it has an arty element to it. Its quite hard to describe in any detail but I certainly wouldn't recommend it if your looking for something to cheer yourself up because this is quite, as I say, a sobering and even grim watch. I think the central performance by Bruno S. was quite good. He plays a quite detached individual well. There is some poignant dialogue and if the director is one you enjoy (Warner Herzog) then I'd recommend it. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review georgan g So many aspects of this film were engaging. Reality v daydream fantasy, relationship that are good AND bad, acting v the non-actors playing themselves and comedic v tragedy. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Not one of the better Herzog movies, to say the least. Pretty annoying and silly. Not sure what the hell he was trying to get at here, besides nihilism or something about how it sucks to be poor and stupid. It's a movie for hipsters to convince themselves it's great and anyone who can't see that has no true grasp of cinema. Yeah, that wacky ending is something, but sure as hell not enough to save this drowning witch. That ship arrived too late and at the wrong dock. 2.8 stars Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review peter w If Stroszek had been filmed twenty years earlier it would have been a fine example of absurdist film-making. Instead, we have a documentary from the 70s where the actions of the characters are unpredictable yet make perfect sense in the context of their lives, right up to the final lines of film where a police officer radios "We've got a truck on fire, can't find the switch to turn the ski lift off, and can't stop the dancing chicken." What keeps the absurdity sustained is the culture clash of German characters being unprepared for the American hyper-capitalism and individuality that props up the branding of streets being paved with gold. Hence the expectation that the film will have an unresolved and somewhat bizarre ending. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review William L When you witness a German street performer and recent inmate stride into a Native-American themed roadside sandwich shop clutching a shotgun and a frozen turkey, you just might shake your head and wonder, "how did we get here?" Though perhaps we aren't all left arguing with polished bank representatives, Herzog delivers a wonderfully tragicomic depiction of life. It's confusing, unfair, and often funny in spite of it all. The ambitions of Schleinstein's Stroszek are painfully simplistic in his own head - he wants to live in peace and happiness, even if he has encountered bumps along the way. But through a combination of unfavorable circumstances, his own shortcomings, and a lack of understanding his dream lifestyle is left painfully out of reach. Life is a balance of childlike wonders and painful truths, and few directors (really, writer-director-producers) have embraced that bizarre balancing act better than Herzog's did with this film, using a script that he composed in four days. Road movies and films about the immigrant experience are each a dime a dozen, but Stroszek strips away excess romanticism to tackle some surprisingly deep and impactful truths about the human experience, told in a way that takes advantage of the humor in suffering without belittling it. (4/5) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/01/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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