koyaanisqatsi

8.5: rel/pol/movie"koyaanisqatsi:

. this was a sort of documentary showing the forces of nature and man

ravaging the planet .

-- a cult film [someone] was proud to introduce me to .

. it ends with the hiameric predictions and warning:

if we dig precious things from the land,

we will invite disaster .

. near the day of purification,

there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky .

. a container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky,

which could burn the land and boil the oceans .

. it also gave the definition of the movie's title:

In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means

'crazy life, life in turmoil,

life out of balance, life disintegrating,

a state of life that calls for another way of living .

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography

of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States.

The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration:

its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music.