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Koyaanisqatsi
1983
KOYAANISQATSI attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the "original" is the .. Read more
| Director | Godfrey Reggio |
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| Genres | Drama |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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An offbeat, and often off-beam, documentary-cum-meditation about the decline of western civilisation, using the difference between the untamed American wilderness and hysterical, rush-hour Manhattan as its crux. Director Godfrey Reggio shuns narration in favour of powerful, repetitive music by minimalist composer Philip Glass to match his striking visuals. Made in the early eighties when ecological warnings were starting to take hold, it was, for all its vacuity, a surprising success. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning “life out of balance”.
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A wildly charitable viewer might describe this as an ecological documentary. Less than 90 minutes transport us from the... read more on Time Out
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9 out of 10 people found this review helpful
brilliant art movie
the music is great and the video images sometimes overly long will last long after you see this, philip glass soundtrack some of the best theme music ever written really adds to the atmosphere, allthough just a collection of video scenes this is ground breaking movie and deserves to be seen on giant plasma screens, a movie that can change your out-look on life.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Historically Predictable
Several things are interesting about this film
The Philip Glass Music; it is almost a perfect match for the images, and for Glass this is about as good as it gets. He can do film music, but little else.
The images; it looks great, thats because its what you expect. Its full of images of a world we are supposedly losing... do you really want to scrape a living hand to mouth in the wilderness? I dont think so. So its romantacised junk.;
So visually very nice.... a bit like a long car advert (which came first?) Sort of wallpaper video. -
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