Review of Woyzeck

Woyzeck (1979)
6/10
Pea Soup
26 October 2021
Sadly it was only when looking this up after seeing it, and noting that it was an adaptation of an unfinished play, that Woyzeck made any sort of sense to me. It feels very empty and skeletal, which lends it a haunting ambience not really backed up by depth of plot. Kinski, playing a gaunt and penniless soldier driven mad by a diet of exclusively peas, is the central character here but plenty of others pop up and soliloquise at random. The ending seems unclear, the reasoning and purpose equally seem fairly opaque - all that's left in my mind are some picturesque images of the stunningly idiosyncratic Czech town of Telc where it was all filmed.
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