Civilization falls

Keyshawn 2022-03-25 09:01:14

Nature slept in loneliness for hundreds of millions of years, until the claws of human industrialization smashed it all. There's no dialogue, just montages of screen transitions, and an amazing soundtrack (Philip Glass, I've actively heard the music is great, and my ears are said to be a little more refined). Nature → fast-paced modern life → numb and desperate crowd → the fall of civilization. In the 1970s and 1980s, the streets, elevators, the Microsoft Building, the food industry... the crowds of people rushing in, lost their personal goals, and only hovered like cockroaches.

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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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