These nine minutes here are the first directorial effort by notable German filmmaker Werner Herzog, even before his 20th birthday. To me, it is really the idea what is best about this short movie. We see bodybuilders exercising and are asked question like would he do this, would he do that. These questions refer to the achievements of the legendary Heracles. So he sort-of compares them to modern versions of him. Afterward, we see pictures of a modern version of these challenges. For example, birds are referenced to as planes here. It is all in black and white and there is nothing really interesting about this over 50-year-old short film. The metaphors used here will maybe occasionally put a smile on your lips, but it's all still very raw and far away from what kind of filmmaker Herzog turned into in the next years and decades. Not recommended, but this is also because I really don't care about bodybuilding and find these bodies of steel we see here pretty gross.
Review of Herakles
