{"id":18270,"date":"2025-12-26T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18270"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:22:30","slug":"land-of-silence-and-darkness-1971-werner-herzog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18270","title":{"rendered":"Land of Silence and Darkness (1971, Werner Herzog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We follow Fini, a deaf\/blind advocate who visits her people in different family and institutional situations.  It&#8217;s almost a public-service issues doc, showing sad disabled people and explaining how systems have failed them.  But ever since watching <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/314\">Little Dieter<\/a><\/em> I&#8217;ve known that Herzog likes to take his doc subjects to unusual places, and who else would take a party of blind women to a cactus garden?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/silentdark1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Vogel: &#8220;confirms Herzog as the mysterious new humanist of the 1970s, light-years removed from the sentimentality of the Italian neorealists and the simplistic propaganda of untalented documentary film radicals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hand communication:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/silentdark2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/silentdark3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We follow Fini, a deaf\/blind advocate who visits her people in different family and institutional situations. It&#8217;s almost a public-service issues doc, showing sad disabled people and explaining how systems have failed them. But ever since watching Little Dieter I&#8217;ve known that Herzog likes to take his doc subjects to unusual places, and who else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,395,2008,2834,93,122,201],"class_list":["post-18270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-blindness","tag-cactus","tag-deafness","tag-documentary","tag-germany","tag-werner-herzog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18285,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions\/18285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}