Should you watch Into the Inferno?
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Into the Inferno
Documentary · 2016
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
The sides of Into the Inferno
- Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer
- Lava lakes in Vanuatu and Ethiopia
- A North Korean volcano treated as sacred
Into the Inferno is good for you if…
- you like standing at the edge of a boiling lava lake.
- you want eruptions and lava flows filmed up close.
- you like Herzog drifting from volcanoes to cults and myths.
Into the Inferno is bad for you if…
- you need momentum, not Herzog's long detours.
- you want eruptions back to back, not interviews between them.
About: nature · belief · the end of the world
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