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melody from mancs on 2001-09-25 13:52 [#00036229] | |||||||||
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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.. |
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phiz from Amsterdam on 2001-09-25 14:12 [#00036235] | |||||||||
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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!! |
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balthus from europe on 2001-09-25 14:19 [#00036237] | |||||||||
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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'). |
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Maytag on 2001-09-25 14:28 [#00036239] | |||||||||
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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. |
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balthus from europe on 2001-09-25 14:42 [#00036242] | |||||||||
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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. |
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melody from mancs on 2001-09-25 14:45 [#00036244] | |||||||||
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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. |
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phiz from Amsterdam on 2001-09-25 14:51 [#00036247] | |||||||||
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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. |
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Julian Casablancas on 2001-09-25 14:59 [#00036250] | |||||||||
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Sounds like a really interesting film. I hadn't even heard of it. But I need to see it now. |
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Netlon Sentinel from yurp on 2001-09-25 21:09 [#00036324] | |||||||||
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i missed it when it was broadcast on german tv. i taped it, but my sister taped something over it..... life's a bitch |
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kr8s from all too far away on 2001-09-25 21:27 [#00036329] | |||||||||
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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. |
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melody from mars bar on 2001-09-26 11:17 [#00036710] | |||||||||
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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....:-) |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-26 13:00 [#00036744] | |||||||||
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i taped it off film four |
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Not MDMA Rodent on 2001-09-26 13:37 [#00036746] | |||||||||
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I KNEW there wasn't a Norwich in Mexico! |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-26 14:18 [#00036756] | |||||||||
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excuse me?! |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-26 14:30 [#00036759] | |||||||||
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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. |
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another hypocrite from norwich (its a small world!) on 2001-09-26 16:16 [#00036800] | |||||||||
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mr cool is a racist gringo ! |
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another hypocrite from norwich on 2001-09-26 16:23 [#00036801] | |||||||||
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check his e-mail adress. not very nice . i am a white boy. lets meet up and have a fight nacho-boy!!! |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:22 [#00037143] | |||||||||
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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. |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:27 [#00037144] | |||||||||
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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. |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:48 [#00037152] | |||||||||
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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 |
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melody from my word what an easily riled dude he is!!!! on 2001-09-27 11:53 [#00037155] | |||||||||
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Again, Mr cool= not cool. dont rise to the bait mr cool, be cool. |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-27 11:56 [#00037157] | |||||||||
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im cool. |
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www.geocities.com/vivadebris/ from desert on 2001-09-28 01:33 [#00037405] | |||||||||
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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... |
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Don Corleone on 2001-11-09 22:00 [#00050084] | |||||||||
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can i download this movie somewhere? |
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Don Corleone on 2001-11-09 22:02 [#00050085] | |||||||||
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can i download this movie somewhere? |
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Mutant Death Pengwin from Medicine Hat on 2001-11-09 23:20 [#00050096] | |||||||||
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where can i get this movie online? |
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