Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker

Make no mistake this is a film about metaphysics. It's a metaphysical film. As well as a film about delusions of authority. To those reading this; you have to leave now, go away!

Herzog playing around with rhythm. Very silly, more than a little amateurish, but good.

Another obstinate yet carefully mannered and kinda nihilistic joke film from 60's Herzog. He seems to be obsessed with the idea of absurd language as a some kind of metaphor for civilization's delusional and maniacally vain attempt to assert its frail lunatic order over the chaos of nature. How fun...

Bizarre and sort of fumbling. Not much of a coherent film.

Not really sure what to make of it....

A sort of a mockumentary short about people who protect race horses. Coming just before Even Dwarfs Started Small, you can see the same sense of absurdist humor emerging, but there just isn't much an idea here. It seems to have the same amateurish "bunch of guys just fuckin' around" quality as the earlier The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz. A very minor blip in Herzog's career.

a very strange joke, but i found it quite funny. perhaps a bit mean-spirited.

Having worked at a race track for a few years I got more enjoyment out of this then most people would. Horse racing people really ARE that crazy! I lost it when the younger guy started karate chopping wooden planks.

Similarly to Herzog's Last Words, this one is full of peculiar people saying seemingly nonsensical and repetitive gibberish. But this time it works a lot better. I really enjoyed the absurdist style and actually laughed out loud more than once. The karate chopping guy who was forced to move to the flamingo lake got the biggest laugh out of me. There's nothing significant or extremely memorable about this, but it's nevertheless an enjoyable small slice of Herzog weirdness.

Interesting... A lot of it has a primitive or minimalist musical form really. It's musical in that people repeat things they say until they lose semantic meaning in favor of rhythm and symmetry, and the form is gained by then combining two such ramblings that were first given separately. I don't like the flamingo scene though, it almost kind of outed the whole thing as a joke.

Not so funny, but okay.