And after all that staring into the heart of darkness the ironic ending is abrupt and trite.
I didn't find it ironic. After so much time spent on Fitzcarraldo's dreams (which always go bust in one way or another), it seemed only reasonable that underneath the entire story of the steamship and the mountain had been someone else's dreams, which Fitzcarraldo had not seen.
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Date: 2008-07-13 04:29 pm (UTC)I didn't find it ironic. After so much time spent on Fitzcarraldo's dreams (which always go bust in one way or another), it seemed only reasonable that underneath the entire story of the steamship and the mountain had been someone else's dreams, which Fitzcarraldo had not seen.