While previous Warner Herzog documenters have focused on a single person (Grizzly Man) or place (Cave of Forgotten Dreams) this newest doc from the eccentric German autor is much more wide ranging. Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is a series of ruminations on the good, the bad and the ugly of our technologically dependent age. To name just a few topics this film covers, interviews with the white hared old men who started the internet with a single remote connection between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in 1969, how a crowd sourced video game helped scientists uncover new ways of folding molecules, victims of internet harassment, denizens of a treatment camp for gaming addicts, people who are apparently allergic to wireless technology, soccer playing robots, and the fact that a sufficiently severe solar flair could fry all our electronic infrastructure and result in the deaths of billions. So like any good Herzog movie it leaves you with a lot to think about. ***1/2.
Herzog is a film maker whose fictional work I have long been dancing around, but after seeing this film and the numerous Herzog references in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl I've decided to finally take on his dramatic film making and added 10 Herzog features to my Netflix queue, be prepared for more Herzog Reviews in the near future.
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