The Fear Of The Unknown

I choose these two clips because I love how it really ties into the theme of science fiction and with science fiction films, it is to explore the unknown. And that is exactly what Werner Herzog did with his documentary. The first clip shows the creatures that the scientist find deep in the sea and the music with it is some what eerie, as if all the creatures from a science fiction came to life. Then the next clip shows the scientists watching an actual science fiction film. And as someone who really loves film, especially Quentin Tarantino, then you would know that any film he puts inside his films have meaning to it and makes that specific scene important. I really like how a documentary like this makes us question about things in life and ourselves when typically they are to inform and tell us what is right and wrong. But not with Herzog, he brings us into the unknown and heightens our fears and fantasies of what the possibilities could be or mean to the audience. He really brings fiction and non-fiction together and it is up to us whether to believe what we see. Just like these two scenes. Is the first clip we saw from a science fiction film…maybe the one the scientists were watching? Or, is what we really see true?

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