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Koyaanisqati reaction
Koyaanisqati: Life Out of Balance is a film that portrays the world through a different eye. It is an essay that shows how human beings react with nature, how we change things contructively and destructively and how nature adapts to these changes. There is no words in the film just clips of waves, clouds, and landscapes, and people interacting. The clips are put in a selective order so that viewers can still receive a strong message without the help of words. Dramatic, classical music is played in the background of these clips to help viewers to get a feel for the film's overall mood.
One of the most interesting things I saw in the movie was the clips of clouds and waves. The clouds would be sped up to see the patterns created from the wind whipping through clouds. Then it showed clips of waves and it seemed nearly identical. This was really fasinating because in a way nature was mimicking itself. Most people would not look up at the sky and think clouds and waves have any relation, but the movement of both is uniform. I really liked this.
Most of the film showed how industry and nature collide; how humans destroy a large amount of nature carelessly and how it is affecting the world. It was really interesting to see the two living in harmony in some clips. With phone towers in the middle of plains both co-existing without the usual struggle. I feel that this balance is becoming extinct and that this is the whole point of the film.
Towards the end of the movie, the majority was clips of people. People walked along the streets working in factories and just human interaction in general. Clips of computer chips and such then began to fill the gaps between human interaction and as it moved through clips they began to speed up humans walking and the things they do on a daily basis until the patterns seemed robotic. I feel this was a statement of how our lives become a pattern that keeps repeating and that we programmed to live the lives we live. It was as if we were becoming over run by technology and since machinery begins to do our thinking and work for us we begin to become walking zombies.
I feel that the movie was a little boring and dragged out, however I feel that it expressed really interesting points so it is worth the watch. I wish there would have been more of a variety on the soundtrack but I believe it was an acceptable piece of work because the statements being made were very clear.
[photos to the response to come]
One of the most interesting things I saw in the movie was the clips of clouds and waves. The clouds would be sped up to see the patterns created from the wind whipping through clouds. Then it showed clips of waves and it seemed nearly identical. This was really fasinating because in a way nature was mimicking itself. Most people would not look up at the sky and think clouds and waves have any relation, but the movement of both is uniform. I really liked this.
Most of the film showed how industry and nature collide; how humans destroy a large amount of nature carelessly and how it is affecting the world. It was really interesting to see the two living in harmony in some clips. With phone towers in the middle of plains both co-existing without the usual struggle. I feel that this balance is becoming extinct and that this is the whole point of the film.
Towards the end of the movie, the majority was clips of people. People walked along the streets working in factories and just human interaction in general. Clips of computer chips and such then began to fill the gaps between human interaction and as it moved through clips they began to speed up humans walking and the things they do on a daily basis until the patterns seemed robotic. I feel this was a statement of how our lives become a pattern that keeps repeating and that we programmed to live the lives we live. It was as if we were becoming over run by technology and since machinery begins to do our thinking and work for us we begin to become walking zombies.
I feel that the movie was a little boring and dragged out, however I feel that it expressed really interesting points so it is worth the watch. I wish there would have been more of a variety on the soundtrack but I believe it was an acceptable piece of work because the statements being made were very clear.
[photos to the response to come]
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