Cave of Forgotten Dreams is Werner Herzog's look at the oldest known
cave paintings. It's intriguing just from the perspective of the fact
that basically no one ever gets to see them in person. He explores some
other facets of life back then, like the landscape and other forms of
art, so it's not only about the paintings. It's interesting to think
about.
I wasn't interested in Cave of Forgotten Dreams when it came out, but someone (hi, ZT) said it "literally (literally)" blew their mind, so I figured I'd check it out. I watched the same way I always watch documentaries – in 10-minute intervals over the course of a day. It's a little slow sometimes. And it bugged me when they were first exploring and getting lots of shots of them shining lights on the drawings that were so bright that you couldn't actually see the drawings. But they eventually stopped doing that.
