One of Werner Herzog’s first requests in his documentary “Into the Abyss” is, “Describe an encounter with a squirrel.” But we know Herzog; you can practically hear him asking it in his chilling German accent along with speculations about smuggling sperm out of a prison, and it almost sounds sadistic.
But from these oddities Herzog gleams a devastating and powerful film that examines death and loss from those who live with death, those who bring death, those who bring life and one who will know death very soon. Continue reading “Review: Into the Abyss”