This Herzog film seemed to have the most popular appeal of any of the films of his I have seen - given the relative affability of the Christian Bale character and the upbeat ending. It didn't seem to descend to the depths of obsession/craziness in some of his other movies. Enjoyed the baroque details of the jungle prison camp and the acting by Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies as the other American prisoners of war. Several years ago I saw the documentary Herzog made about the person this is based on (_Little Dieter Needs To Fly_). It seemed to capture more of the character's obsessive need to fly and why that drove him to escape from the prison camp, not so much a patriotic or survival drive.
At the Boston Common
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