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Your favorites - My First Time Pt 2.
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About halfway through Baraka, Ron Fricke's wordless wonder of a film, a question kept popping in my head: Why…
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The ultimate presentation of Earth and it's spiritual inhabitants.
The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi-films, directed by Godfrey Reggio for which Ron Fricke was cinematographer. One could almost call it a spiritual follow-up.
It's like Koyaanisqatsi, only better. How's that even possible, you would might ask, but it really is. It's more subtle in its approach, has better cinematography and is a way more complex story. It's unique in its beauty, sensitivity, and perception. Baraka succeeded, in the course of 90 minutes, in moving me from the humdrum of everyday reality to a calmer and more spiritual space.
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Baraka is a film so visually and emotionally powerful that it credence to the idea of film as a true art form. Created out of only images: time lapse, portraits, dolly shots, helicopter shots. Baraka is powerful because of the humanity that the individual viewer puts into the images. It's created to evoke ideas from us. It gives us images and we put the thoughts on top of it. That's what's amazing about it, we are the ones that actually…
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Absolutely astonishing. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Sometimes you get so caught up in your own life and the walls around you, you forget that the world is so god damn big, and in the grand scheme of things you are so god damn small.
I read a lot of people say that you needed to be stoned to enjoy this film. I disagree completely. All you need is the ability to open up and…
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While the Bluray presentation is pretty much close to perfect, the film itself falls short of perfection. There are some images and moments of scene comparisons that are directly lifted from Koyaanisqatsi, which is strange to me. You'd think that Ron Fricke would want to separate this film from that film, but alas that is not the case. Its not that I didn't appreciate the similar scenes, I never get tired of watching a sped up shot of people going…
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a film, as the tagline states, takes us to 'A World beyond Words'. The world portrayed in the film is anywhere and everywhere on Earth, and is is beautifully timed to the beat of Michael Stearns' score. Expertly shot and made, but the ambiguity is not executed to the best of its ability, and many sequences are a slight bit repetitive.
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