![]() ![]() He cares not for accuracy but for effect, for a transcendent ecstasy. In Herzog the line between fact and fiction is a shifting one. Kaspar speaks as a man to whom every day is a mystery: "What are women good for?" "My coming to this world was a terribly hard fall." And think of the concept being expressed when he says, "It dreamed to me. Adopted by the town and a friendly couple, he learns to read and write and even play the piano (in life Bruno also plays accordion and glockenspiel). In the movie, as apparently in reality, an unknown captor kept him locked up in a cellar for about the first 20 years of his life. Kaspar Hauser was a real historical figure who in 1828 appeared in a town square early one morning clutching the Bible and an anonymous letter. On his commentary track, Herzog describes him as "the unknown soldier of the cinema." On the commentary track Herzog says he was vilified in Germany for taking advantage of an unfortunate, but if you study Bruno sympathetically you may see that, by his lights, he is taking advantage of Herzog. ![]() He can possibly play no role other than himself, but that is what Herzog needs him for. In "Kaspar Hauser," he looks anywhere he wants to, sometimes even craftily sideways at the camera, and then it feels not like he's looking at the audience but through us. Bruno is however very strange, bull-headed, with the simplicity and stubbornness of a child. ![]()
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