It is because human beings have recognized their incompetence that they have embarked on the path of Sisyphus

Juliet 2022-01-09 08:01:58

This movie seems to be a grand poem, telling a curse that human beings can never escape in a religious tone. However, under this curse, we are so strong, and the power of life is vividly expressed in despair. . I wanted to score 3 stars in the first 15 minutes. I thought that the foreshadowing was too long, and it had only a handful of meanings other than aesthetics. I felt that it was not as useful as the video. However, the change after 15 minutes and the vicissitudes of life and life revealed at the end His incompetence touched a soft place in my heart.

The wide-angle lens is not originally the perspective of the human eye, and the lens soaring in the sky never belongs to us who are imprisoned on the ground; those belong to an absolutely fair person, and the creator has the perspective. He led us to see the endless reincarnation and accelerated development of this world. At the beginning, the murals in the cave, the turbulent flow of nature, the Grand Canyon split the arrogance of this world, and even the waves seemed to be warning something. However, we have seen something beautiful in this. Imagine the cold air piercing the throat, or the toe slipping through the calm lake leaving traces of existence, imagining the moon is only a finger away from us, or looking forward to something on a crowded street. No matter which sector, it will always point to "destruction." After the destruction, there is a new round of hope.

In his perspective, the world has always been in a spiraling state (premise: we regard technological development as progress).

Objects, nature, and human beings are the 3 protagonists of this movie. Nature gave birth to us, and we became the next generation of creators. But human beings are really too weak and insignificant. So that after I got used to God's wide angle of view, the sudden middle shot could make me cry.

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Extended Reading
  • Josue 2022-03-21 09:02:39

    overrated. Some of the shots are good, and the whole thing is full of craftsmanship. The concept is empty and the editing is scattered. The constant slow motion and fast motion and the incomprehensible and cryptic passages are too monotonous and boring. The disaster is spectacled and mystified without being critical, using Hopi language and concepts, and only subtitles at the end to make a blunt question. I saw that the crowd had no personality, and the occasional close-up of the characters was sometimes intrusive. Glass' music is also worse

  • Marcelino 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    The way of shooting looks exciting, but it is actually monotonous. "Human language is shameful, it does not fully describe the world we live in"

Koyaanisqatsi quotes

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    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."

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