Land of Silence and Darkness

I’ve seen this referred to as Herzog’s best documentary. I can see why – it’s moving, gorgeous, simple, and loving. Also incredibly tactile as one might imagine, most scenes of these women who are deaf and blind, have their hands outstretched with a companion signing and translating letters into their hands. How does one experience the world, without the main stimuli that we rely on?

With this film, today marks watching my final Herzog film that was available for free on Tubi! Tubi has ads, but I kind of like them, it fulfills some sort of nostalgia for “real tv,” with ad breaks every 20-30 minutes. I ❤ Tubi btw, quine a phenomenal and random catalogue!


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