Werner Herzog Talks About Eating His Shoe
This is not a spoiler. It is a fair warning to minimize your expectations as far as the working title goes. They slyly edit out Werner ever actually consuming said leather. It is only alluded to, discussed, etcetera. As far as innovatively preparing a shoe to hypothetically be eaten, it is all here. As far as several wise philosophical quotes from the great German director, yes. As far as him waxing poetic regarding following your dreams and doing what it takes to overcome obstacles to pursue your goals in life, check. Plenty of cameras shutter clicking, interview questions being thrown his way to distract from any actual eating, check and check. Charlie Chaplain doing his version in black and white, got that.
At best we have something akin to a clever child supposedly eating his abhorred vegetables. The brush sprouts are pushed around the plate, tomatoes are patted flat, peas are rolled around, they make dinner table small talk, they point to the beautiful day or moon outside. But was anything actually digested?
Excessive amount of time is spent cutting the food into miniscule pieces. One might be slipped into the mouth. A great show of chewing. More chatter. The five hour slow roasted leather shoe looks like the same size, except now in pieces. We are distracted by his charm, though. Alas, dinnertime over. Showtime over. Did he eat even one miniscule piece? Probably? No matter, though, say most of the audience. We got his intellectual insight.
False advertising. Call me a stickler. I do not deal well with dashed expectations.
This is not a spoiler. It is a fair warning to minimize your expectations as far as the working title goes. They slyly edit out Werner ever actually consuming said leather. It is only alluded to, discussed, etcetera. As far as innovatively preparing a shoe to hypothetically be eaten, it is all here. As far as several wise philosophical quotes from the great German director, yes. As far as him waxing poetic regarding following your dreams and doing what it takes to overcome obstacles to pursue your goals in life, check. Plenty of cameras shutter clicking, interview questions being thrown his way to distract from any actual eating, check and check. Charlie Chaplain doing his version in black and white, got that.
At best we have something akin to a clever child supposedly eating his abhorred vegetables. The brush sprouts are pushed around the plate, tomatoes are patted flat, peas are rolled around, they make dinner table small talk, they point to the beautiful day or moon outside. But was anything actually digested?
Excessive amount of time is spent cutting the food into miniscule pieces. One might be slipped into the mouth. A great show of chewing. More chatter. The five hour slow roasted leather shoe looks like the same size, except now in pieces. We are distracted by his charm, though. Alas, dinnertime over. Showtime over. Did he eat even one miniscule piece? Probably? No matter, though, say most of the audience. We got his intellectual insight.
False advertising. Call me a stickler. I do not deal well with dashed expectations.