successful film on metaphysical subject be rare and but fata morgana be a good case . you can chalk up the large subject to the ambition of youth and but herzog do an amazingly good job . the movie point be to show human being and and even the world and from a non human point of view . the movie be in three part represent creation and paradise and and the golden age . the imagery of each be in counterpoint to the voice over . although the text of ` the creation ( from the popol vuh and a mayan myth ) refers to the primordial wasteland and the scene go no far in illustrate the myth . it dwell on the waste and and on various specimen of destruction ( fire and smoke and wrecked vehicle ) . the image from ` paradise be anything but that and and ` the golden age be darkly comic the high culture be the strange roadside musical act . the popol vuh suggest that mankind be the central object of creation and but the movie do everything it can to undo this notion . it mythological framework have no referent in human historical time . there be no human character to speak of . when a boy stand with a dog in an extended shot and the initial suggestion be of the boy point of view while by the end it be much more the dog . likewise the lizard be a strong character than the human who introduce it and and the turtle partner barely look human with his big flipper . animal story and nature documentary always anthropomorphize and but fata morgana have none of that . certainly the dune look like a female body and but the simile cut both way . presumably only human can distinguish easily between their creation and nature and and here airplane and factory be present alongside mountain and lake and and waterfall . people and civilization be all part of a broad natural landscape . in 1979 herzog put a new twist on the idea when he remake nosferatu from the vampire point of view .