Pang Yen Wu
11/25/15
ENG 1101-D376
Summary Cave of Forgotten dreams by Werner Herzog
Cave of Forgotten dreams by Werner Herzog at year of 1994 ,he bring a small crew and film inside the France’s Chauvet Cave, the walls in there are covered with the world’s oldest paintings ever be discovered by humans. Herzog discusses how the cave paint these kind of artwork represents early human’s dreams with scientists and art scholars conducting research at Chauvet. By discovering the cave we found human creativity, how the people act back than, and a word can talk to us.
In the France’s Chauvet cave on the wall there were the paint of the rhino with eight legs, that is called portosynima in the documentary the painter draw the animal with eight legs to represent there movement. This is human brain , they create a unique way to express out the things they want to represent, just like the animal’s movement.
We reconstruct the past, you imagine what was the life back then and what kind of animal is appeared, and what is there life style. For example they will dancing with there own shadow they thought there were another person in the wall and will doing the moves other than they doing ,so they keep trying it imagine in there head there is an alive thing in the wall. All after they light up the fire with a stick
The researcher they are using the technique which is they taking photo of the paint on the wall, since they can not touch it. And diagnosis it and figure out the different time period have different work to the cave wall. Some of them were the early human using the stick ,and after that is a cave bear using the craw to attack the wall. By looking at the cave paint, the early human paint it on the wall and tell us the story happening between the animals.
The people back then will invent the music instrument by using the nature source. They found a flute and they discuss how they made it and where there found it. They found out that the flute have the same tone compare to the current world time. And a special man can using his smell and find the under ground cave. That guy can smell the air of the cave air. The current comes out from underground. The people back then they will make the aggressive weapon to kill the horse, and hunt the animals. They making spear heads and also found them in the mammal’s body.
A wall can talk to us , They have religion they put a skull on the rock. You need to go outside the cave and go to other country to learn about different culture to be able to better understanding the things in the cave, such as the cave paint the meaning of it.
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