There's scene near the end of the film with the old rusting skeleton of a car in the middle of the road as semi-invisible ghost-like cars drive past on both sides. Any idea why these cars have been made to appear like this? Is there some sort of symbolism I'm missing?
Tuco: I like big fat men like you. When they fall they make more noise.
The Car.
Its carcass remains, but SO many cars have passed by...
Time goes by, the body rots, as others leave their spirit behind.
Something like that!
You know, it's just that many cars have taken that road,
but the skeleton-car can't hit the road. It just bites the dust. Litterally.
Koyaanisqatsi rules !
Through industrialisation, technology prevails over natural life. So it becomes almsot sentient and when it breaks down the sight of the empty shell, or body, might evoke a sympathetic reaction from us.
shareThose are excellent observations. Now can anyone explain how those effects were achieved?
shareIndustrialization and technology break down, just like human beings and the environment.
Industrialization and technology become mangled and ravaged and dilapidated and wasted and left in a state of timeless decay, just like human beings and the environment, and it's ironic because human beings and the environment are both directly and indirectly destroyed by industrialization and technology.
Industrialization and technology and consumerism and capitalism consume the life forces of other beings in order to further their own "life", yet industrialization and technology and consumerism and capitalism inevitably break down and fail, leaving behind a wasted shell of a civilization it preyed on to continue "life".
Industrialization and technology break down erode just as they force human beings and the environment to break down and erode.
And nobody learns from it, it all continues on, nobody cares about the destruction industry is inflicting, nobody cares about the child brushing his teeth using filthy run-off water in the street, or the children sleeping on a road barriour, or the old beaten down haggard man with one tooth tottering through the streets, or the shell of a car frame sitting in the middle of nowhere.
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