During the part about the Electromagnetic hypersensitivity of those people suffering why did he not question that their symptoms - while real - have not been proven to be caused by their hypersensitivity to electromagnetic waves?
Was he just trying to chronicle issues with the net and its creation?
This part of the movie was incredibly distracting!
While exploring the many negative ways humanity is affected by a hyper-connected world, Herzog gives us (somewhat) compelling narratives on harassment and addiction, but completely misses the mark with the EMR stuff. As you said, these people legitimately suffer, but you could bombard them with EMR all day without telling them and they wouldn't report any negative effects.
I would say it cheapens his point, but then again he gives the mother in the harassment story plenty of screen time to do so herself when she claims the internet is the devil's work...so I'm not quite sure what his point is.
Perhaps it's entirely about showing people's own personal perceptions about how they're negatively affected, without regard to actual facts. But with so many other legitimate concerns he could have highlighted, I was a bit disappointed with the pseudoscience stuff.
That's why I think this is more of a mockumentary than a documentary, like the Nessy one.
***So I've seen 4 movies/wk in theatre for a 1/4 century, call me crazy?**
I just wanted to scream at these people!!!
Listen to when they say how long they have been sick for, but there has been just as much 'radiation' around us for 50 years, and no one has gotten sick, They all have a mental
illness that has been proven many times over. I honestly can't believe that they were
given credibility at all. That's when I stopped it and came here, knowing full well
that I would find someone in the IMDB comment section that would bring it up also.
Yep. Me as well.
Though, I believe it is a form of mental illness, and not an actual physical malady, the people are suffering. I think the point of the segment was that it doesn't matter if it is real or not, when you see the actual anguish on that ladies face.
...but it doesn't belong in the movie. Its not an Internet-only phenomenon.
The bastard in my wants to find out where these people are and go hide a device near them to see if they notice.
Oh, I believe they have issues, just not anything due to actual electricity.
The TV show Better Call Saul cals much attention to this phenomenon, so trying to say it's
a real thing caused by electromagnetic current now would be hard for anyone to believe.
I honestly can't believe that they were
given credibility at all.
I love Werner's work as a whole. But I have now spent 5 evenings trying to watch this film and just keep falling asleep. It frankly it comes off more like a mockumentary than a documentary. My least favourite Werner project is the Nessy film, and this film seems like that one for me. A lot of nonsense. Maybe tonight I'll be able to finish it...
***So I've seen 4 movies/wk in theatre for a 1/4 century, call me crazy?**
Those people are mentally ill.
shareDrove me up the wall as well. I couldn't believe that Herzog passed EHS off as legitimized science despite the reams of research papers to the contrary. Even if he wasn't going to come down on the side of the peer-reviewed evidence, to simply ignore its existence was startling.
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