Final Scene from Werner Herzog's Stroszek

The Final (and the most bizarre) sequence from Werner Herzog's classic film 'Stroszek' (1977). The location for the closing sequence is in a strange fun-house where chickens dance, play the piano, a duck plays the drums and a rabbit is blowing the horn on a fire-engine!!!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Werner
• Herzog
• Stroszek
• Dancing
• Chicken
• Piano
• Drummer
• Duck

[lawnkhan]

Perhaps we are all in our own metaphorical cages waiting for someone to put in a quarter and see us do our little dance. I think this film says a lot about the futility of man. In the great universal scheme of things; our little fire trucks and our songs and instruments do little but entertain.

[thebathroomsinger]

interesting comment there lawnkhan.. i watched this video again after a long time - and it felt like a 'rediscovery' of this futility that u talked about.. after all, ife is but an illusion - of a rat-race.. and all that..

[pwnyoubitch]

Nobody can stop the dancing chicken.

[guitar19904]

@socoolio

he actually had one of the joy division LP covers with chicken foot prints on it with the words "the chicken doesnt stop dancing" printed on it.

ian saw somthing in that film

[ReDmOoSe33]

@lawnkhan It's funny, because how the animals are able to perform is due to behavioral conditioning. I think the metaphor is revolving around that idea: are we, as humans, a construct of behavioral impulses that we've been conditioned to utilize due to a lifetime of predetermined stimuli? The film exemplifies the futility of our own free will to fulfill our existential goals. "Is this really me?"

[incongra]

it just shows the futility of human existence, very moving

[gustafsg]

This scene is genius and incredibly disturbing.

[socoolio]

@Raflegan indeed.

[Raflegan]

@socoolio He was frustrated that he couldn't stop the dancing chicken through the celluoid on the tape.

[socoolio]

Joy Division leadsinger Ian Curtis watched this film just before he commited suicide, I understand why... I think?

[jaimy375]

grande maestro Werner

[PaperMidnight]

We are all slaves to money.

[Reamplification]

5:12 I started crying when I saw that scene.