This really is the type of film you’d expect from Werner Herzog directing a film produced by David Lynch. The best part of the entire piece is the out of this world amazing cast Herzog has assembled. Michael Shannon and Willem Dafore are both spectacular here. The rest of the amazing cast includes Michael Peña, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier, Grace Zabriskie, Loretta Devine, Irma P. Hall, and Brad Dourif. The film is not what you expect, and it is frustrating at times, but there are still moments that really grab your attention. I don’t know what the film is trying to say. Is it about what happens if we always trust the inner voice/gut even when that voice tells us to do unreasonable or destructive things? Is it a meditation of madness similar to other Herzog films? Is it about how you can’t explain away crazy? I can’t say and I don’t know which direction I’m supposed to be pulled in.
