London Film Festival Days 9 & 10: Nocturnal Animals, Lo And Behold, Aquarius & More
4. Lo & Behold, Reveries Of The Connected World
Werner Herzog's documentary on the beginnings and ultimate potential of the Internet and technology at large may not say much new, but it still benefits massively from his unique existential perspective and inviting interview style.
Much of the film examines the birth of the web as well as the fairly well-trod dangers (namely Internet trolls), but things get much more interesting when Herzog ponders the future, of how expanding tech could completely change the way humanity lives and interacts with one another. Could the web eventually serve such an inter-connected function to humans that our desire to interact and even breed with one another disappears almost entirely?
Rating: While it's not quite as illuminating a doc as you might hope for from the master filmmaker, Herzog still brings plenty of himself to the doc, and his musings about where technology will take the human race in the decades and centuries to come provides highly compelling food-for-thought. 7/10