Koyaanisqatsi Quotes

  • [last lines]

    title card: Translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film: "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster." - "Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky." - "A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."

  • Choir: Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi...

  • title card: ko-yaa-nis-qatsi

    [from the Hopi language]

    title card: n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

Extended Reading
  • Clifford 2022-01-09 08:01:58

    NB, it feels a bit neo folk. Once life is played at high speed, the direction and purpose will be blurred, and then it will become a circuit board of unknown purpose. The valuable thing is that the movie does not end here, and it continues to record the numbness. Life, the rocket rises to the headspace, civilization collapses instantly, and everything returns to the dust. . .

  • Marcelino 2022-04-21 09:02:55

    Watch in foreign teacher's class. A movie has read the history of the earth, from the slow growth of all things to the rapid development of society, its images are both annoying and awe-inspiring, watching humans deal with machines, but the soundtrack mistakenly thinks that humans are playing musical instruments, just The former is far less beautiful than the latter, and it is fortunate that only the soundtrack is heard. In the end, people are really convinced by the audition methods such as downgrades and fast cuts. This is the best encounter between film language and earth civilization.