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...In white letters sharply defined against a black screen, Blaise Pascal's famous quote fittingly opens Lessons of Darkness(1992). I say fittingly because the quote is fake (it was fabricated by Herzog to direct his audience to engage on a very "high level" before the movie even properly begins) and because Lessons of Darkness, for all its profundity, isn't exactly a true documentary, either. It is, however, exemplary of Herzog's nonfiction style.

Upon its release, Lessons of Darkness was criticized in many circles for its daring and grandiose repurposing of footage shot of a battered Kuwait just after the Gulf War. Using truly breathtaking 16mm images (many of them aerial shots), a sweeping orchestral score (Mahler, for example) and sparse but heavily biblical voice over, Herzog creates an apocalyptic opera of observation on war, environmental calamity and absurd human folly.