A cardboard tribute to the Les Blank documentary "The Burden of Dreams". | dG1fM0ZEZnZsTzU0dmc
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00:00You
00:30You
00:48It's an unfinished country
00:53Still prehistorical
00:56The only thing that is lacking is is the dinosaurs here
01:00It's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape and whoever
01:06Goes too deep into this
01:08Has his share of that curse?
01:11So we are cursed with what we are doing here
01:15It's a land that God if he exists has has created in anger
01:20It's the only land where the creation is unfinished yet
01:25Of
01:27Course we are challenging nature itself and it hits back. It just hits back. That's all and
01:34That's grandiose about it. And we have to to accept that it is much stronger than we are
01:40Taking a close look at at what's around us. There is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of
01:49Overwhelming and collective murder and
01:52We in comparison to the
01:55articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle
02:02We in comparison to that
02:05enormous articulation we only
02:08Sound and look like
02:10badly pronounced and
02:12half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban
02:17novel a cheap novel and
02:19We have
02:21to become humble in front of this
02:26overwhelming misery and
02:29overwhelming fornication
02:32Overwhelming growth and
02:34overwhelming lack of order
02:37Even the the stars up here in the in the sky look like a mess
02:43Of course there's a lot of misery
02:46But it is the same misery that is all around us the trees here are in misery and
02:53The birds are in misery. I don't think they they sing they just screech in pain
03:16There is no harmony in the universe we have to get acquainted to this idea that
03:22There is no real harmony as we have conceived it
03:26But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it
03:33I love it. I love it very much
03:36But I love it against my better judgment
03:46You
03:50Why not just move this to the Amazon and do it with real people wouldn't that be easier real boat
03:56Real but the river though a real real river actually just flows. You don't have to do anything with it