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melody from mancs on 2001-09-25 13:52 [#00036229]



Great film::, seeing the WTC towers fall whilst listening to
SAW II just reminded me of it // IF u want 2 check out the
music and some screen shots take a peek ere;
koyaanisqatsi.org/films/k_music.htm
ps. watch the film late at night with a smoke, its better
that way..


 

phiz from Amsterdam on 2001-09-25 14:12 [#00036235]



late at night off your head is a great time to watch this
film.
blew me away a couple of months back at 4 in the morning on
some german tv channel, fantastic!!


 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-25 14:19 [#00036237]



yes, koyaanisqatsi is fantastic, and the weird thing about
the film is, that it changes with every repeated watching.
i love this scene, where signs like 'have a barrel of fun'
and 'grand illusion' are turning up, and where the people in
the streets are filmed in slow motion. my favourite part of
philip glass' music is the second piece, 'organic'. the
build-up of that piece with the strings and the flute is
very beautiful. i would love to see the scenes which were
not finally used in the film, such as the facades of wall
street (with the piece by phil glass, 'facades').


 

Maytag on 2001-09-25 14:28 [#00036239]



In a way Koyaanisqatsi really shouldn't be fun to watch.
There are some hopefull parts, like the nature scenes but as
soon as they get to the cities I start to feel like that
Indian in the old "Please don't pollute" commercials. It
really makes me sad and I begin to think about all the
injustice we've heaped upon every other living creature on
Earth and the planet herself. It makes me feel like there
really isn't much time left and we are most likely beyond
the point of return. We are slaves to our own technology
which ironically will destroy us by making our lives easier.
What is our ultimate goal in our greatest technological
feat, space travel. To move onto another planet once we have
sucked this one dry? We do live out of balance of the cycle
of life and the planet may need to kill us off like a virus
in order to stay alive.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-25 14:42 [#00036242]



maytag - i think the same about the movie. it is in fact
very melancholic and sad. the powerful thing is that the
movie doesn't condemn humanity, but it has compassion for it
(thinking of how the people as individuals are filmed in the
final scenes, and the exploding spacecraft). next year,
there's a release of the third film in godfrey reggio's
qatsi trilogy - naqqoyqatsi, which means 'life in war'. i
wonder if this wtc desaster will have some influence on the
movie.


 

melody from mancs on 2001-09-25 14:45 [#00036244]



the alienation caused by the materialised industrial
order..
machines which use US as THEIR subjects, the reversal of the
once functional robot, into a being enslaving mankind in
this CIVILISED world. The raping of nature to feed lives
divorced from it. The Hopi Indian paintings shown on the
cliff faces look almost similar to the huge electric pylons
stretching out across the desert..... the computer
chip-board up close seems indistinct from the ariel view of
the huge tower-block housing estates. The imagery is
weaved brilliantly and YES its not meant to be pleasurable
but to provoke thought about our lives. This civilisation
will surely come to an end, leaving but a scarred derelict
world behind...............
Koyaanisqatsi; A life which calls for another way of
being.


 

phiz from Amsterdam on 2001-09-25 14:51 [#00036247]



deffinately a very emotional film, gave me feelings of
insignificance, you know the saying 'it's a small world'.
not at all for me, made me feel like a very small drop in a
very big ocean.


 

Julian Casablancas on 2001-09-25 14:59 [#00036250]



Sounds like a really interesting film. I hadn't even heard
of it. But I need to see it now.


 

Netlon Sentinel from yurp on 2001-09-25 21:09 [#00036324]



i missed it when it was broadcast on german tv. i taped it,
but my sister taped something over it..... life's a bitch


 

kr8s from all too far away on 2001-09-25 21:27 [#00036329]



can you rent or buy this anywhere? i read the site and it
says their in dispute over the home video/ dvd rights or
whatever... that sucks.


 

melody from mars bar on 2001-09-26 11:17 [#00036710]



bugger to track down.... Unfortunately the monopoly of
stores like Blockbuster squeeze out a lot of smaller
independent stores that might stock such original material.
You have a half decent chance at any leftfield
music/video/cult store and I've even seen it in my local
library. Check libraries; much more likely, as Phillip Glass
is the kind of music i imagine librarians enjoying(heinous
generalisation i know) Well worth the time & effort . Good
luck, let us know....:-)


 

Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-26 13:00 [#00036744]



i taped it off film four


 

Not MDMA Rodent on 2001-09-26 13:37 [#00036746]



I KNEW there wasn't a Norwich in Mexico!


 

Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-26 14:18 [#00036756]



excuse me?!


 

Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-26 14:30 [#00036759]



i never said i live in mexico.
i have lived in mexico.
i am from mexico.
i am mexican.
i just live in england now, i just couldnt be bothered to
correct anyone when they assumed i live in mexico.


 

another hypocrite from norwich (its a small world!) on 2001-09-26 16:16 [#00036800]



mr cool is a racist gringo !


 

another hypocrite from norwich on 2001-09-26 16:23 [#00036801]



check his e-mail adress. not very nice . i am a white boy.
lets meet up and have a fight nacho-boy!!!


 

Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:22 [#00037143]



yes what a small world, who would have thought?
wow! we both live in Norwich! great!
i am mexican, you dung licker, i am from mexico, my family
is mexican, i am not a gringo, you stupid english f*ck.
by the way, i have many white english friends, the email
address is actually a joke that stupid ring poker like you
wouldn't understand.


 

Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:27 [#00037144]



you say i am racist?
because of my email address?
what the hell is nacho boy about?
because i am mexican you call me this?
fine, if you want to play it like that, you bland tasteless
steak and kidney pie f*ck.
this goes to all english f*cks who have a problem with me
being a proud mexican.
only those english f*cks, not all.


 

Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:48 [#00037152]



im sorry i didn't mean to offend anyone who isnt an english
f*ck, i mean anyone who shares the same views of me as ah
because i am a mexican, is an english f*ck, anyone else, my
english friends for example who dont give a f*ck who i am,
that is to say, they dont mind that i am mexican and proud,
these are not included in my generalisation


 

melody from my word what an easily riled dude he is!!!! on 2001-09-27 11:53 [#00037155]



Again, Mr cool= not cool.
dont rise to the bait mr cool, be cool.


 

Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:56 [#00037157]



im cool.


 

www.geocities.com/vivadebris/ from desert on 2001-09-28 01:33 [#00037405]



All of you are right, it is a classic! That film did for me
what I thought great art was supposed to do. I actually saw
it in a theatre when it first came out. Someone won tix and
I got to go. Talk about a picture you want to see on the
BIG screen, this one was it. It changed the way I saw film.
I didn't have a plot, acting, dialog nuthin. And the music
changed me as well. I'd never heard of minimalism at the
time. It can be purchased thru some video on-line stores I
think. And in the end it leaves me emotionally wasted...


 

Don Corleone on 2001-11-09 22:00 [#00050084]



can i download this movie somewhere?


 

Don Corleone on 2001-11-09 22:02 [#00050085]



can i download this movie somewhere?


 

Mutant Death Pengwin from Medicine Hat on 2001-11-09 23:20 [#00050096]



where can i get this movie online?


 


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