[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B00003CWHQ” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N5J1Q2DBL._SL160_.jpg” width=”111″]Supposedly Werner Herzog’s [easyazon-link asin=”B00003CWHQ” locale=”us”]Even Dwarfs Started Small[/easyazon-link] is an allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, but we at Disability Movies think that might too sophisticated an interpretation for a film that should have been titled “Dwarfs Gone Wild”. It’s 96 minutes of vignettes of the worst stereotypes of little people behaving badly at an isolated mental asylum, strung together with little semblance of a plot. They cackle maniacally for no apparent reason, break dishes and ruin perfectly good food, look at naked average-height women in an art book yet can’t figure out how to have sex themselves (what?), torment blind dwarves, make a car drive around in circles, set houseplants afire, and, at the crux, crucify a monkey. Sure, you could read all that as a commentary on the wastefulness and depravity of modern society, but why would you need little people for that?
