This is a 2013 documentary short film by German director Werner Herzog. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, he actually made a couple short films, so this was a bit of back to the roots for him now at the age of 70. This film is about car accident, more specifically those who happen because one of the victims is on the phone texting. We hear a handful stories, each roughly seven minutes by relatives of dead people, people who got severely injured and their family, but also by people who texted during driving and caused a car crash this way. No matter which side you're on, the one texting or an innocent victim, this will crucially change your life for the worse. You will die. You will have severe injuries. Or you will just have to live with the guilt, let alone the legal consequences you are about to face. These are all very sad examples of what could happen. The saddest in my opinion was the one with the woman who got severely injured and her dog got killed. She lived, but she will be disabled for the rest of her life and the girl who is responsibly got away with hardly no punishment at all. She did not appear in front of a camera because her lawyer instructed her that way, but also she will have to live with the guilt. I don't know how famous this documentary would be without its director and I don't think there is a real Herzog touch of it like it is the case for most of the other films he made, but the message stays the same: Do not text and drive or you could lose all you have.
