Heart of Darkness

I was as much interested in Werner Herzog, as usual, as Timothy Treadwell, watching Grizzly Man last night. The interjections he made were arresting even within such a dramatic and absorbing framework, and the timing of these personal views was a study in itself.
The most startling, in context, was when he stated the fundamental difference between Treadwell's idea of the harmony of the universe, and his own belief that "chaos and murder" lie at the heart of everything.

This immediately brought to my mind the scenes at the end of David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet' where the camera pans down from an all-American Rockwell type scene in the kitchen, to the birds, grass, insects revealing an impersonal, eternal killing field at the base of it all.

My question is this -- how DO these people live so fulfillingly, creatively and apparently easily whilst being so utterly AWARE of this?


..... or maybe they don't; maybe they just cope and get by but have unstoppable output.

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