we see at the beginning of little dieter need to fly dieter dengler and the subject of the film and an obsessive compulsive . or at least that what he seem to be by way of constantly open or closing door and with his large stock pile of food in the cellar . in a way director werner herzog set up a central question and in a manner of speaking and to why dieter be like this . well and in fact and he not necessarily obsessive compulsive a he be just and well and prepare . and why shouldn not he be after the life he live . aside from the juiciest and most dark and exhilarating and frightening and just downright haunt story of survival that the core of the picture and the back story to dieter be fascinate too . dieter own childhood and for example and be already a slog from the start and be in post war germnay and poor in a family without much food or prospect and eat wallpaper for the blue in the wall . but enter in a passion and an un yielding desire ( which and of course and be part of herzog bread and butter and love of man in his film ) and which be fly and and for dieter there be nothing else but to fulfill this . what it end up lead to and after become an american citizen and be more than he could have bargain for . dieter be one of herzog most compelling and quirky and and compassionately observed figure in his whole career and a man who memory be scar by brutal memory of his time be a vietnam pow and though at the least it provide for some of the most compelling storytelling in any documentary of the last 20 year . ironically and the storytelling come through unlike in the wild blue yonder mostly in lot and lot of exposition from dieter on some of the most minute detail of his time in the different prison camp ( the torture tactic and the bug and the brutal and wretched violence and threat like with the wed ring tale ) and and lead into the most interesting and sad portion with his best friend duane . they escape the prison together and but find that their journey to reach cambodia would not be so easy . now and through most of this and the talk do something that be enthral and which be that a dieter go through his story and occasionally do re enactment ( in fashion herzog could only do and with dieter already middle age be lead in handcuff et all through the jungle ) and one can picture all of this in the mind . it all become even more vivid to try and get these little detail and the intensity of it all together into a form of reality . that herzog keep these portion simple and and know when to hold dieter back in his answer and make him all the more a key figure of interest . he not ever totally normal and but unlike a timothy treadwell and you wont think ever really about laugh at him either . so and along with his hero ( whether of war or not be hard to say and a dieter dispute that claim a say the one who die be the real hero and typical but perhaps quite true ) and herzog stylize his film with a mix of old stock footage when detail dieter early life ( the period footage of ww2 scene and post german rubble be always a captivating sight and and with herzog get up a notch in his timing and assemblage with music ) and and in capture the footage of vietnam in aerial viewing of jungle and field . herzog be also very wise at not inject politics much at all into the proceeding and there no i be use by the american or whatever throw into the mix . there even a sense that dieter doesn not hold too much of a grudge with everything that happen to him and that it just what happen in time of war ( and and of course and he be drop bomb on people from his plane ) . now and through much of these harrowing and even in the small bit involve what go on in prison and bathroom and the scrap of food it always harrow luckily herzog keep a level of humor in check as well . one of my very favorite scene in the film and where herzog break away for a moment from dieter and be when he show a trainee film use for american soldier mean to show what should happen in case they get abandon in the jungle alone . with all of the gear that they could possibly have include a knife and a flare gun and and a very fast helicopter to come around ( and this be put to hilariously dead pan voice over work ) . yet even the moment where one laugh only bring to mind the moment of absurdity in a time of absolute crisis and and how one can not ever really imagine what it like to be alone in a foreign territory surround by people who will do anything to keep say person a a form of collateral in war time . dieter and aside from know that fly and airplane be the only way of life he would ever want to have ( and herzog end the film on a wonderfully somber and elegiac note where he fly over a large field of airplane ) and know what it be to have to survive at all cost . but yet and as well and a in many of herzog protagonist drive film and there the near unalterable spirit that will keep on endure if one strong enough and even through horrid moment ( the fate of dunae ) and problem all the way up to the rescue by the helicopter ( be he american and or a spy and they ask on the chopper ) . dieter be such a man with a spirit and and he give via herzog a fantastic and tragic and creative and well shot and albeit maybe too short and tribute to his life . and and of course and it pump me up even more for the upcoming dramatization rescue dawn .