Although already mentioned in this thread, Herzog's Land of Silence and
Darkness (1971) is noteworthy because it both documents the lives of men and
women born as deaf-mutes (thus raising the problem of how these people can
ever communicate with others) and also fabricates their testimony (Herzog
himself wrote most of the touching monologues in the film - he says in
_Herzog on Herzog_: "I am good at expressing things and they are not. They
agreed that what I wrote was what they meant" - I am quoting from memory
here). This, in a way, then links to the other current thread of
transcending (or is that accepting?) language - a major theme (as has been
previously pointed to as well) of Herzog's.
I'm sure we could link in the thread on the kiss here as well...
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