Post by Jerome Rumol' on Jul 15, 2013 18:59:16 GMT
Koyaanisqatsi is the first movie of a trilogy called the "Qatsi trilogy". Koyaanisqatsi means in Hopi (Native American People from Arizona) "life of moral corruption and turmoil" or "life out of balance" according to the Hopi Dictionary.
This is not really a documentary, because there is no text, not a real script, just shots edited with modification on time scale. Filmmaker used this to show to spectator an other vision of life. We could notice a kind of poetry in the movie, we are watching thing we could see every time, at anytime of the day, but the other perception of nature, technology, and finally humanity. The film following a kind of a chronological order of Nature and we could notice a importance of technology more and more important in human life, at the beginning it was just a tool and it became a necessity. Finally the film is also a reflexion about individual and global human life, especially with the shot with the microprocessor when humans, and consequently there freedom, are compared to electrons.
To better understand the movie, it is based on three prophecy said int the beginning of the movie :
1. If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
2. Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.
3. A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky which could burn the land and boil the oceans.
To conclude this introduction of the movie, we could notice the amazing work of Philip Glass for the music. It replace totally text or other kind of dialog and it's an important part of the art work of this masterpiece.
![]()
This is not really a documentary, because there is no text, not a real script, just shots edited with modification on time scale. Filmmaker used this to show to spectator an other vision of life. We could notice a kind of poetry in the movie, we are watching thing we could see every time, at anytime of the day, but the other perception of nature, technology, and finally humanity. The film following a kind of a chronological order of Nature and we could notice a importance of technology more and more important in human life, at the beginning it was just a tool and it became a necessity. Finally the film is also a reflexion about individual and global human life, especially with the shot with the microprocessor when humans, and consequently there freedom, are compared to electrons.
To better understand the movie, it is based on three prophecy said int the beginning of the movie :
1. If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
2. Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.
3. A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky which could burn the land and boil the oceans.
To conclude this introduction of the movie, we could notice the amazing work of Philip Glass for the music. It replace totally text or other kind of dialog and it's an important part of the art work of this masterpiece.