Koyaanisqatsi
This movie has high levels of win.
Koyaanisqatsi, Hopi for "life out of balance," is a motion picture essay about modern life and how screwed we are. It’s telling us that basically, we’re all hot dogs on a conveyor belt and we’re all headed for lives of hurrying around, never quite having a place to go. It may sound pretentious, and I suppose it is, but it was nice to watch an environmental caution/human excess warning with no cute robots. It’s also one of the most beautifully shot movies I’ve ever seen. The Pruitt-Igoe and final sequences got tears in my eyes from both content and visuals.
One must not casually watch Koyaanisqatsi. Preferably, watch it in hi-def and full screen so there are no distractions. The musical score betrays almost nothing of what is happening on screen. There is no dialogue. Blink and you’ll miss some shots. Hopefully when whoever clocks on the link watches it, they have an hour and a half free. I didn’t, and had to watch it over two days.
Thank you to flansburgh38 for bringing it to my knowledge, and CFM is quite awesome for knowing about it.
PS: Eric Whitacre for my choir is a bigger lie than the cake.
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