Berserk airport beverage vehicle illustrates man and technology's destructive, cosmic ballet
Werner Herzog’s relationship with the late Klaus Kinski is widely considered one of the most infamous, fucked-up partnerships in cinematic history. On-set tantrums, violent outbursts, terrorizing indigenous peoples, wanton gunplay, non-hyperbolic death threats—someone should really make a film about it, honestly. But when all was said and done, the iconic German director often insisted his relationship with his one-time muse was always based on artistic professionalism.
“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other’s murder,” Herzog once famously recalled.
Like Herzog himself, allow us to ruminate on these very dynamics regarding humanity’s relationship with technology. Take, for instance, this video recently making the rounds depicting an airport transport vehicle loaded with beverages freaking the hell out on a tarmac, spinning wildly out of control as it edges ever closer towards colliding into a nearby plane. Given its size and speed, runway workers at Chicago’s O’Hare airport can do little else but watch in nervous anticipation, until, at the last second, a hero arrives.