Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi (2 Pack)

Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi (2 Pack)
by Godfrey Reggio

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DVD Review: THE MOST IMPORTANT FILM EVER MADE
Summary: 5 Stars

koyaanisqatsi should be required viewing in every school. it isn't mere preaching, it FACTUALLY shows you what we're doing to the planet that wants to give us life. we humans aren't nearly as smart as we give ourselves credit for. the fact is we are more ruled by our selfishness and shortsightedness.

things haven't gotten any better since it was made. they have gotten significantly worse. i can remember when winter was really winter. last year, it hit 80 degrees in february! that isn't right. with higher temperatures caused by MORONS IN SUVs who see nothing wrong with breeding 5-10 more morons to continue their "traditions", the earth will retaliate with increases in bacterial infections as has already been ducumented and killer bee swarms (that shouldn't even be here to begin with) will move further north.

the signs are here... we're just too ignorant to stop what we're doing. some people's answer... ignore the problem and kill the messenger. entire areas of coral reef that have lived for millions of years have died almost overnight because we have raised the temperature only 2 degrees in less than 100 years. things will get worse before they get better. destroy enough links in the chain of life... and there will be huge consequences down the road.

koyaanisqatsi is a film WAY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME. there was really no talk of global warming back then, and there really still isn't even now. i agree with my DVD's caption: "until now, you've never really seen the world you live in" the problem is, flawed human nature prevents anyone from seeing anything that they don't want to see, especially if it makes a person question themselves. humans are very resistant to introspection, and are always looking for someone else to blame. everybody wants to pretend they're perfect, but none of us are. regardless... we really do need to start doing things differently and stop hiding from the truth because it's unpleasant. the truth really can hurt you, especially when you refuse to confront it.

that is what koyaanisqatsi does and why it's so important, not the terrific soundtrack... and not the sensory overloading visuals... it's the message "this is what YOU are doing to the world you live in" this film has inspired me to give up on automobile ownership for good. i now commute by bicycle or mass transit. i'm actually surprised that i get resistance from cashiers for wanting to re-use old shopping bags. i get annoyed by whiners who complain that tree huggers are robbing them of their cushy jobs destroying the planet.... to bad! get another job... preferebly in recycling or farming.

koyaanisqatsi is a film about the unstoppable momentum of human apathy and devotion to ignorance. it's the only series that i know of that's brave enough to slap people in the face with their own shortsightedness with something even more powereful than words that can be debated by reactionary circular logic. it confronts us with images that can't be explained away by anyone claiming to be a rational person. the ONLY things wrong on this planet, are the direct result of humans. it's too bad that as a person... this fact might hurt your feelings.

animals are actually much smarter than us... because they know enough to play by "god's" rules. we humans are so full of ourselves that we think we have a better way... we don't. ironically enough... the simple life really is better. faster living creates new sources of stress. fact: on average... hunter gatherer societies need only work 3-4 hours a day... think about that when you're stressed out at your second job so that you can pay for the SUV that you can't really use to run over those little japanese cars that dare to get in your way making you road rage.

you can take the man out of the cave... but you can't take the cave out of the man.