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The Wild Blue Yonder

2005 · 81 min

A dreamlike, unsettling collage of real footage and alien narration that feels like a strange, melancholic meditation on home and extinction.

Directed by: Werner Herzog
Genres: Science fiction, Documentary, Drama
Starring: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker

Overview: An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

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Directed by: Werner Herzog
Genres: Science fiction, Documentary, Drama
Starring: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
survival
environment
memory
death
Places: space
wilderness
Era: near-future
Audience: adult
Form: found footage
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Darkness	6
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: science fiction, documentary, drama, comedy
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Written by: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid, Michael McCulley, Roger Diehl, Martin Lo
Music: Ernst Reijseger
Cinematography: Henry Kaiser, Klaus Scheurich
Runtime: 81 min
Country: Austria, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, United States of America
Languages: English

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