STROSZEK

Stroszek-1977, Werner Herzog

Director Werner Herzog delivers poetic juxtaposition and melancholy cynicism in this grim tale of three displaced Germans seeking a new life in rural Wisconsin. Stroszek (Bruno S.), a destitute ex-con, and Eva (Eva Mattes), a luckless prostitute, are plagued by misery in their home of Berlin. When Stroszek's neighbor immigrates to Wisconsin, the couple follows but finds that the bleak landscape of a depressed Midwest offers little hope or solace.

Have you seen this movie? If not rent it today. I would say this movie is a masterpiece in realism, i mean real realism really, Bruno S (the actors real name as well) was institutionalized and abused until he was 23, all the actors in Wisconsin were actual townspeople and that chicken was really dancing...turns out the town they shot this in Wisconsin is actually the hometown of one of Americas most twisted serial killers Ed Gein. The movie is a play on the concept of the American dream and though there have been many movies on the dissapointments of foreigners this is the most biting, bleakly humorous take ive ever seen. The shots are long still photographs of the American Midwest adn Dark, grey shots of urban Berlin. They did an amazing job dividing the two with the changes in music, In Berlin it was rambling quiet Glockenspiels and piano and in America we heard some 70's soft porn muzak and some guy yodeling with a harmonica...perfect...I see it as a film about people so peculiar and eccentric that they wouldn't fit in anywhere, even Plainfield, "Railroad Flats" Wisconsin. Herzog brilliantly weaves extremely odd yet compelling images into an astonishing tapestry, culminating in one of the most unforgettable scenes in the history of cinema...