fitzgeraldo you know while they're trying to pull the ship over the mountain right with klaus kinski and all that and people died on that set one guy got bit by a snake had to chase off his foot this logger who was who was with the production crew or something there's this clip that i've linked to below it's great it's it's a kind of behind-the-scenes documentary of him during the filming the trees here are in misery and the birds are in misery it's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape and whoever goes too deep into this has his share of that curse it's a land that god if he exists has created an anger he's so quotable man i like him much more than i like his films this is actually from the uh the finished uh book because the version in here is different but uh he writes thus the jungle the terrible devastating impulsive jungle is like man's life for years it patiently nurses the majesty of its trees and alongside that majesty the very source of its own destruction and so comes a day on which all that majesty falls back down to the earth and returns to dust and ash and not by chance but from that very devastating seed of destruction that majesty created by the jungle itself so is man so was i like the jungle i destroyed my majesty i with which the very hands with which i am writing these words cast my monumental dreams to the ground that's what i realized sitting beside the white-faced woman but now i understand it anew it is no coincidence i myself had carried the seed of this destruction in my own sick tormented soil and i had cultivated it i myself by falling in love with the children in the la condone whom i was now betraying if all this had taken place before when my soul knew nothing but hatred my majesty would have lived on but love and hate cannot coexist the one destroys the other and love in the case of my soul triumphed no that's a good one it's a good one the book is like reading a dream you know or a nightmare a fever nightmare i wouldn't at all be surprised if the story came from a dream or a nightmare that bernal had there's so much uh symbolism with the mosquito this ancient kind of vampiric creature which lives off the blood of humans and other animals found all over the world and i think a lot of us can relate maybe nowadays more than ever uh to the solipsistic nihilist who abandoned society out of shame and humiliation developing a narcissistic egomania hell bent on finding some sort of empowerment or maybe that's just me but another way i think a lot of us can relate to a man who is hurt and very tired of people while one could i suppose guess a few plot elements in the novel see them coming i don't think anybody is going to see the sledgehammer of the finale coming which is so fresh and totally got me and perfectly encapsulates the absolutely horrifying tone of the novel i mean i did not see that coming at all i really did not i will not spoil it for you it was so
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