powaqqatsi

Agreed. What an amazing film. I saw it only once in the Eighties, then waited many years for the VHS or DVD, never forgetting those slow pans past childrens' faces. When I finally got the DVD earlier this year, I made the mistake of loaning it to a friend and never saw it again, so I had to reorder it. I was fascinated to learn from the interview with Glass on the DVD that the music for the gold mine sequences was actually composed in real time down in the pit as the film was being shot.

This is not only a beautiful movie in visual and musical terms. It also made me think about a number of questions:
The painfully unfair distribution of the wealth in this world.
The daily struggle to survive from billions of human beings around the world (including my own country) who are not as lucky as all of us who can access this site thru a computer from our cozy homes or from our workplace.
Yet this film is not a let-down, it celebrates the diversity of life and culture. People from different countries with different faces, different skin color and different beliefs (political, religious, any kind of beliefs).
But at the same time you realizes that we all are the same. The Human race is one and only one, No matters what the racists keeps preaching (the genetists have confirmed that only exists 1 human race thanx to their studies on the human DNA).

But then if we all are the same, wouldn't that be in conflict with the diversity that Powaqqatsi and Goddfrey Reggio portrays and defends? No, I don't think so.

I remember an old and wise Maya from southern México who said: "Because we all are equal, we have the right to be different".

It could take a time to fully understand that.

I haven't seen Koyaanisqatsi nor Naqoyqatsi. But I am looking forward to see them ASAP.

Wonderful film.