My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

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Jelisije J @jjosifovic Dec 5, 2025 If you want to watch the journey of a mentally challenged individual and his fall from grace then this film is for you. See more Ken B @RT46811641 Aug 30, 2023 Did everyone completely really miss the main thrust of this film? The terrible generational curse of the House of Atreus portrayed in the Greek tragedy of the Oresteia trilogy! They only rehearse portions of it over and over and over for us... Mix that with his Peruvian experience, what ever it was, and his bible visions. Yes, it does't quite match the horror of the Greek matricide of the original, but don't criticize if you're not going to at least consider those many references to the Greek tragedy. Perhaps a more powerful evocation of the impact of Greek tragedy to a modern audience is "A Dream of Passion" with Ellen Burstyn and Melina Mercouri. In Athens, an American woman (Burstyn) murders her 3 children because her husband is having an affair. A Greek actress (Mercouri) is producing Euripides' "Medea" (who murders her children) for the BBC. The plot is involved, but the film ends with a scene of the play's production at the ancient theater at the site of the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Acted entirely in Greek, the viewer nonetheless experiences some of the horror the original Greek audience would have. See more Sep 6, 2016 A different take on a hostage situation, with the flashbacks just making Brad (Shannon) look even crazier. No real rhyme or reason to anything in the film, with it seeming to be weird for the sake of Herzog's whims - staring into the camera, frozen, for 30sec at a time, a score that doesn't fit, flamingos and ostriches... Also a waste of Dafoe's talents - felt long @ 87min. See more Mar 13, 2016 The worst of geniouses Lynch and Herzog. Mental illness of boredom. See more Sep 30, 2015 This rough picture flits from mockumentary to weirdness that borders on self-parody. The few glimpses of dark beauty couldn't save a rushed and mediocre thriller. See more Apr 11, 2015 It does not really work, but I would take a flawed Herzog film over most good films. Michael Shannon is perfectly cast. I'm not sure if that is a good thing, but it is true. See more Read all reviews

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