Werner Herzog's Heart of Glass is complex, challenging, and elusive, making it a difficult film to fully grasp everything the filmmaker is trying to say. While this may sound like a negative critique, this mystery is what makes Heat of Glass so compelling, being a haunting and strange film that is hard to forget. The film is centered around a small village in Bavaria which is known for its "Ruby Glass" production. When the glassblower responsible for making these beautfiul worls dies, the people of the town soon discover that his contributions cannot be replicated, as the glassblower did not leave behind the secret on how to make this special ruby glass. Becoming increasingly obsessed with duplicating this man's accomplishments, the town slides into a deep depression, with the owner of the glass factory going to extreme lengths to try and find the secret to making the ruby glass. Heart of Glass is a film that is very much up to interpretation, but the film's ability to capture the power of creativity and importance of art does stand out as a major aspect of Herzog's beguiling film. The whole experience of Heart of Glass is haunting, as Herzog harkens to the end of times, the apocalypse, using this small town as an allegory to the importance and power of art and creativity. While I'd be lying if I said I fully grasped the sure scale of what Herzog's Heart of Glass was trying to say, the film manages to capture how new ways of thinking that challenge conventions are incredibly powerful, being an extention of art. That being said, this is a very expansive film in the way that only Herzog could provide, being hypnotic and visionary.
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