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Werner Herzog filmed a movie titled Encounters at the End of the World, which is based on Antarctica, in the year 2007. During the filming, he had the chance to meet Clive Oppenheimer, who is a geographer and a seismologist at Cambridge University. This collaboration has led to fresh discoveries for Herzog in the realm of pop anthropology and idea history. Together, in the year 2016, Herzog and Oppenheimer released ‘Into the Inferno’, where Oppenheimer played in front of the camera while Herzog worked behind the camera, lending his iconic rasping voice with a hint of black dark humor. The focus of the film ‘Into the Inferno’ was on how volcanoes create bizarre belief systems with the humans that surround them.
Now, with the new film on meteorites, Herzog and Oppenheimer are back, except this time Oppenheimer will be sharing the directing credit. The new film is just as fascinating and explores the same thematic ideas like Oppenheimer’s previous films. Herzog’s unmistakable growl makes an appearance in this documentary as well, which is a welcomed sound.
There is a dual threat to mankind at all times. Volcanos are poised to spill out lava from below, and meteorites are perpetually on the verge of hurling down something life ending on us from above. Extraordinary phenomena emerge from the blast zones. The shock, devastation, and unparalleled awe, and humanity’s dawning comprehension that they are at any moment left vulnerable to being wiped off the face of the Earth materialize over hundreds of years into rituals combined with worship, all aimed at attempting to satisfy or pay homage to this eclipse-producing god. But, like the reverse of space exploration, it is also possible that meteorites have brought organic-like substances with them from the far parts of the cosmos.
Oppenheimer and Herzog fly out to Wolfe Creek, a monstrous and rather frightening meteorite crater in Western Australia (which the aboriginals refer to as Kandimalal), which is believed to have been formed due to volcanic activity 120,000 years ago. They argue it has been Mecca in Saudi Arabia and that the black stone is in fact a meteorite. They also appear in Ensisheim in northeastern France, which in 1492 a meteorite of boulder size purportedly fell from space, its interpretation was given a lot of attention, a new era was unmistakably interpreted for the political status quo pushed forward and when coupled with the Columbus coincidence, the world was never the same again.
The documentary explores multiple angles andv has interviewed a diverse group of people. One of the individuals, an amateur scientist and jazz musician, Jon Larsen, is reported to have discovered micro-meteorites located on the surface of a sports arena in Oslo. Nobody can disagree with him. Herzog and Oppenheimer have also interviewed the head of NASA’s planetary defense coordination office Polly Turner, whose objective is to prevent a massive meteor smash that could have the same consequences as the dinosaur extinction. The strategy is believed, by Turner, to send up a gigantic nuclear missile into space and blow it up right next to the speeding meteorite to knock it off course. I am not joking.
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