ayhansalamci Humanity, nature and cycle. The director succeeds in presenting the audience in detail without dialogue in three parts. In this documentary you can question life, wars, people's anger, contempt, inequality and everything. You see a philosophy accompanied by awesome images. I think many people can get bored, but you have to be patient and watch. I want to open a separate parenthesis to the music of the documentary. The audiences are almost sticking to the seat. Do people pollute every environment? Where does humanity come from and where does it go?

philiposlatinakis Koyaanisqatsi is a watchable film. It isn't pretentious and it isn't a masterpiece. The ending is a bit anti-climactic and the music a bit mediocre but it doesn't really drag and holds up to scrutiny. It didn't actually come across as anti-technology or anti-civilization, although the warning at the end would suggest otherwise. There are two acts and an epilogue. Act one is about the power of nature, and act two is about the power of man. The epilogue converts the faceless masses of Act two into individuals and introduces explicitly the coda of the film in the warning.I enjoyed watching this even after reading the negative reviews on IMBD which had me guessing that I'd wasted my money on the DVD. I could probably watch this film again. The Philip Glass music was a bit disappointing though. Not up to the standard of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, and the thankfully sparse chanting didn't work.

Al_The_Strange From the Hopi language, Koyaanisqatsi is a word that roughly translates as "crazy life," or "a life out of balance," or perhaps more appropriately, "a way of life that calls for another way of living." Incidentally, that's exactly what this film shows: no plot or story, just a document of the modern age of man, far out of balance from nature, which calls for human beings to adapt to their own constructs.This film doesn't offer any conventional story with any characters; it's purely an experience built from images and sound, to illicit thought and feeling in the viewers. Both the images and music are beautiful in their own ways: with Phillip Glass' epic, well-structured music score, the film takes on a palpable rhythm and mood that perfectly accentuates the gorgeous scenery. The film plays around a lot with time-lapse footage and slow-motion, which serve to show common cityscapes in an invoking new way. Altogether, the film is as hypnotic and mesmerizing as it is thought-provoking.This film was cobbled together from all kinds of footage filmed across the United States from 1975 to 1983, with a tight budget. Regardless, the filmmakers show superb prowess with their photography and editing skills. At least on a technical level, they've maximized their potential and tools to craft an audio/visual masterpiece, weaving the images and music to the themes implied with the term Koyaanisqatsi.As far as the content goes, like any piece of art, it's left to the viewer's interpretation. The most opaque of themes will revolve around civilization's progress, the depletion of nature, and the effects of technology and industrialization on the human race. There are times in the film where humanity seems triumphant, and other times where it feels like it's spinning out of control in a downward spiral of chaos and destruction (especially in one of the film's final shots, depicting an Atlas-Centaur rocket exploding; it's a sequence that's always hit me the hardest, given the combination of imagery, music, and the overall theme that human civilization rises so high, but will eventually crash and burn).Watching this film is not only a treat for the eyes and ears, but also a sobering, moving experience unlike any other. I believe it truly represents the best and worst of the human race in the modern age, and everybody should see it at least once in a lifetime.5/5 (Entertainment: Perfect | Content: Perfect | Film: Perfect)

valbrazon This strange title hide a movie which critics the world of today, who is evolve constantly but since the human is living on this planet, the pollution is common."Koyaanisqatsi" is an awesome movie for cinema lover peoples because it contains fabulous images and a wonderful music. This movie make us think about the actions of the human on the environment. After watched this movie, i realize the earth changed a lot since the human use it. But, i think some shots in this movie are a bit slow.Directed by an unknown people with the name of Godfrey Reggio, formerly monk, this movie will stays in my mind and i don't will hesitate to watch it again.A must see movie.