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Lessons of Darkness (1992) Dir. Werner Herzog

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[0:40]A planet in our solar system, white mountain ranges, clouds, the land shrouded in mist.
[2:11]Something is looming over this city, this city that will soon be laid waste by war.
[7:06]The battle had raged so ferociously that afterwards grass would never grow here again.
[13:20]She had been dragged away by soldiers along with her two grown sons, and had to watch her sons being tortured to death before her very eyes.
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[0:40]A planet in our solar system, white mountain ranges, clouds, the land shrouded in mist.

[1:20]The first creature we encountered tried to communicate something to us.

[2:11]Something is looming over this city, this city that will soon be laid waste by war. Now it is still alive, biding its time. Nobody has yet begun to suspect the impending doom.

[4:23]The war lasted only a few hours. Afterwards everything was different.

[7:06]All we could find were traces. Had human beings actually lived here? Had there ever been a city? The battle had raged so ferociously that afterwards grass would never grow here again.

[13:20]We met a woman who wanted to tell us something. She had been dragged away by soldiers along with her two grown sons, and had to watch her sons being tortured to death before her very eyes. This caused her to lose her speech, but she still tried to tell us what had happened.

[16:41]This lake here is well, like everything else, is black oil. Ponds and lakes are spread out all over the land. The oil is treacherous because it reflects the sky. The oil is trying to disguise itself as water.

[17:45]And there were voices, and thunders and lightnings. And there was a great earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

[22:50]And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it. And shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

[50:19]As life without fire become unbearable for them,

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