herzog have work a masterpiece here . in a similar endeavor to aguirre and fata morgana and nosferatu and herzog have capture the grotesque absurdity of contemporary man and make it beautiful . he have begin create the image essential to man survival those necessary for man to escape the inarticulacy in face of our modern time . the image in this film be not about war nor the atrocity of war . they be rather offer man who be void of adequate image a set of image with which he may begin to understand . to understand the complexity and the fundamental basis of these complexity for which at present and his language be fundamentally insufficient . chapeau werner .