Werner Herzog's, Aguirre: Wrath Of God on the surface is a statement on the ineffable horrors found in the ubiquitously terrifying South American jungle. The film and raft so prominently displayed is driven by Aguirre a man hounded by the goal of finding the lost city of El Dorado and finally conquering South America in its entirety. He does so at the behest of his own maddening delusion, even while protest from his dwindling crew ring in his ears. The jungle around him is assailing and suffocating, the danger of native tribes always on the mind and on tips of poisoned darts; in this world, Aguirre will stop at nothing to succeed.
