Thursday, January 22, 2009

BARAKA


This is the first movie I watched that doesn't have any speaking parts in it. It was 70 minutes of just spectacular videos. I think this movie is telling us about the world, in densely populated places, and places where there are nobody. I think the movie is telling us extremeness of the world, all the things we find extraordinary. There are plenty of things he could have shown as well, why did this movie chose to show these places instead of others? For example, I noticed it didn't show anything under water. I think it showed us the opposites of things, it showed us a busy and rich city, and it showed us a slow and poor city. It showed how calm nature is, and it showed how rushed the humans are. The director seems to be telling us to get a comfortable chair and sit in it for 48 hours in different places and see how the world changes slowly or rapidly, to see how amazing things are right now.