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Watch FIRE on YouTube

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Video editing: 

Montag

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Music:

DKay - Fire
Home T & Cocoa Tea & Cutty Ranks - The Going Is Rough

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Movie:

Lessons of Darkness (1992) - Directed by Werner Herzog

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Though you try and try so hard,
Failure is your just reward
There is a lesson you must learn
Play with fire
You must get burned

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Few decisions in world history have been as stupid, cruel and arrogant as Saddam Hussein setting Kuwait's oil fields on fire in 1991, leaving behind not only scorched earth in a land that was already scorched, but also contaminated waters, blackened skies, inflation, hunger, death and more war.

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The greatest irony is that there was no political, military, strategic or social gain that could justify his actions, much less their consequences.

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And few filmmakers are as courageous and creative, or as capable of turning the worst news into visual and narrative poetry like Werner Herzog. 

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And without a trace of irony, every expense, injury and risk he takes is entirely justified, and his results even more so. 

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Such is the astonishing Lessons of Darkness from 1992, with images so surreal they look as though they were filmed on another planet.

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I took the longest and most interesting sequence from the documentary and combined it with DKay's Fire, calling the angular result simply Fire. 

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And once again, Dubstep emerges as the perfect soundtrack, featuring samples of Cutty Ranks' voice and the poetry that sums it all up: after all, if you can't keep up with the leaders, then get out of the race.

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There is no copyright infringement intended, the material used in this is purely for entertainment purposes, and it will be removed by request.

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