1 Giant Leap
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Actor: Asha Bhosle, Duncan Bridgeman, Jamie Catto, Neneh Cherry, Ram DassBrand: Uni
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 155 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
DVD Reviews of 1 Giant Leap
DVD Review: Interesting...sort of.
Summary: 2 Stars
A melange of quick-cut, commercial-style, mostly third-world images (think Powaqqatsi on fast-forward, but without the thematic cohesion) set to a pan-Indian/African flavored soundtrack (similar to the band Deep Forest), interspersed with occasionally insightful, sometimes banal philosophical and political observations by mostly non-academics (actors, musicians, etc.) on a variety of themes (time, death, money, etc.) at one theme per chapter. Each chapter is accompanied by its own song, and each song is a skillfully assembled montage of the voices and instruments of musicians from around the world, recorded on location and later interwoven. The sound quality is good (excellent 5 channel separation), but suffers from a certain sameness throughout (compare the soundrack to Baraka, for example, which has greater variety and remains truer to place and theme). Shots of the skillful musicians performing are surprisingly uninspiring and prosaic (the film needs a good cinematographer). Editing is frenetic, lacking the visual poetry of Baraka or even the vastly overrated Godfrey Reggio films, and half of the too-short and frequently repetitive scenes in each chapter aren't well contextualized and could just as easily have been in another chapter. Unfortunately, the frequent speaking parts impede the film's success as a good ambient video (at a party for example), and because the speaking parts aren't voiceovers, it also fails when used in that manner with your own music instead of the film's own soundrack (who wants music to an ordinary talking head, even of ex-pornstar Sharon Mitchell). Eh.
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