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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)

Documentary | 97 minutes
3,41 17 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer

Stars: Clive Oppenheimer and Werner Herzog

IMDb score: 6,9 (4.107)

Releasedate: 10 September 2020

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds plot

"Explore the meaning of falling stars, meteorites and deep impacts."

Werner Herzog reunites with Cambridge University professor Clive Oppenheimer, with whom he explored volcanoes for Into the Inferno. They travel the world hunting for meteorite impacts, both ancient and recent. They reveal connections between science, history and mythology. Oppenheimer interviews specialists about freak accidents, apocalyptic scenarios and the mysteries of the cosmos.

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One of the better documentaries I know (including from Herzog himself Lo and behold). Firstly, the director reveals a fascinating world here, that of meteorites, space dust and how people feel about it in the past and present. He comes to special places for this, I call the NASA planetary defense coordination office. So that exists. We don't have to worry about a Don't look up scenario! In addition, Herzog and Oppenheimer come up with some beautiful images. Detailed shots of meteorites, impressive ice fields, the dance of the islanders. The music is also beautiful. And then Herzog finishes it off with his drily funny voice-over, wonderful.

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mrklm

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Herzog continues his fascination with mythology, but this time solidly substantiates it with the help of his good friend Clive Oppenheimer and other scientists. Herzog and Oppenheimer visit, among others, the two largest craters in the world in Medina (Mexico) and Wolfe Creek (Australia), respectively. This documentary links the scientific knowledge about the causes and consequences of a meteor impact on Earth with the mythology and folklore of the indigenous people. Is the Kaaba, the religious relic that plays such a crucial role in Islam, in fact the remains of a meteorite? These and many other questions about how astronomical phenomena continue to influence our culture are addressed in this fascinating documentary, featuring Herzog's signature voiceover, of course.

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blurp194

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Herzog does meteorites.

With his own somewhat croaky commentary voice, he talks about the topic of the day in a completely unscientific way, helped by a random group of scientists and a random group of goofballs who have nothing to do with science at all. But Herzog wouldn't be Herzog if he didn't present all that without judgment, what you take from it is up to the viewer. An approach that I would have greatly appreciated in the past, but which now gives me the shivers, because in recent years it has become very painful how far the flight of pseudoscience has gone. Yet the narrative that Herzog presents remains very intriguing, and also instructive in the countless details that he passes. Not least the religious aspect - also something I would have systematically rejected before, and which I still have great difficulty with. Still, even though there is no basis for it in rationality, it helps people find meaning, and besides, Guy Consolmagno's quote definitely hits me "you can't do science if you don't have that sense of wonder , you can't believe in a creator God if you don't experience creation" - or else you can put Nick Cave's explanation next to it.

No, I still don't believe - and certainly not in the form of the social construct that the Western world makes of it. But on the other hand, there is the universe, which is too big to be understood even with the current state of physics. Animalism demands its place there, that duality comes across beautifully in Herzog's narration, and along the way you also get a lot of really scientific tidbits. Combined with Herzog's pleasantly personal approach through his medium Clive Oppenheimer, this ultimately makes for a very fine film. Much better than the action movie I started tonight and just really didn't feel like watching.

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