Cave Of Forgotten Dreams By Werner Herzog

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The documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog starts with one of the biggest discoveries in history. Starting with, three explorers who traveled to Southern France in 1994. They were looking out for drafts of air around rocks, hoping that the air would lead them to caves. As they explored and searched they discovered rocks in their narrow journey that led them to make one of the biggest discoveries in human history, a cave. First, not knowing what the cave was, after further searching they came to discover art paintings, hand prints/bones and stories that were left behind by what they believe to be from the Paleolithic Era. The Chavet Cave, named after one of the discoverers, contained art paintings that were the oldest ever in all of history. Now, scientists will enter the cave with strict directions of shutting the door shut, for climate conditions in the cave, using certain lighting, and staying on the two feet walkway created.
Archeologist, historians, geologists and pathologists were now going to perform a study about the cave, putting their individual knowledge together. This granted study was the first time anyone is allowed in the cave other than the lead scientists. Narrator and director, Werner Herzog says, "Frozen flesh of a moment in time" when describing the cave. The cave was never before discovered because of a rock slide that occurred 20,000 years ago that sealed the entrance of the cave but it was now containing the discovery of the oldest painting created in all of human history. These paintings included, horses, mammoths, rhinos and wolves. An interesting strategy the painters used were creating the animals with multiple legs, signifying that these animals were moving ...

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...oy, walking next to him, or the footprints were created years apart from each other. Some also feel that they were disturbing the work of the Paleolithic people or they were being watched by them.
The scientists enjoyed their last moments in the cave because this could be the last time they would every see the cave. Scientist claim that we need to adapt to other Thurman groups and communicate about the memories. They also state that invention of communication is important because this is the best way for transferring communication. Sometime later, the largest power plant in France is 29 miles away from the cave, which creates a tropical biosphere. The greenhouses there are expanding and even have crocodiles to cool the reactor. Werner Herzog end the documentary with, "Are we today the crocodiles that look back to an abyss of time when we see paintings in a cave"?

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