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A world beyond words.
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
Baraka
1992 Directed by Ron Fricke
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Világok arca - Baraka, Baraka - Odysea země, Baraka - Eine Welt jenseits der Worte
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Faith and religion Humanity and the world around us journey, scientific, humanity, documentary or breathtaking religion, church, faith, beliefs or spiritual earth, sci-fi, space, spaceship or mankind political, documentary, president, democracy or propaganda death, profound, symbolism, philosophical or vision Show All…
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damn!!!! i hate being tricked by a movie into thinking i'm gonna see some stunning images of the magnificent nature of the world and its culture as they exist beyond my immediate surroundings but then bein forced to also see some images of the unnatural world as it now exists thanks to the manmade perversions war, pestilence, and capitalism have unleashed upon a once-natural land!! i fucking HATE it!!!
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Occasionally, I just want to sit down and watch a film, any film, as long as it fits into a specific genre. I might say "I'm in the mood for a comedy" or "I could go for a kick ass Sci Fi right now", and then I walk over to the wall o' film and find exactly what I am looking for to whet my appetite. As the clock struck midnight and a new day began, I realized what I was looking for at the moment. I didn't want to laugh, I didn't want to solve a puzzle, hell, I didn't even want to try to follow a plot.
I just wanted to see something beautiful.
My second viewing of…
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I was pretty hungover this morning, and it was exactly my mood.
What a beautiful film. Its sort of Cinema at its most pure. There is no dialogue or plot, but it’s amazing the messages that can be made in a cut or edit (for example, bones in Auschwitz, to a pile of ammo)
It’s like going into a museum, looking at images and interpreting them yourself.
I was expecting it to be a little bit of a hard watch but I had trouble looking away honestly. Watch this on the biggest screen you can because the visuals are spectacular.
I won’t try to tackle the meaning of the movie here but he goes into various motifs such as ritual, destruction, movement, inequality, and so on. There’s a lot to discuss and he doesn’t bite off more than he can chew.
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In order to start with my Baraka review, I definitely must make myself clear with the following point: My evaluation standards for a film are completely different from those I have for grading a documentary. Since both belong to totally different categories, documentaries can't be really considered as movies. In fact, a documentary is a genre itself. Whereas films are useful for narrating a particular story, being either original or based in any bibliographical or artistic source (including autobiographical portraits), through acting, directing and a prior screenplay, the magic of documentaries come directly from the fact that they represent a small portion of reality of a small part of the world seen through the eyes of a director. There is…
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Like a love child of Terrence Malick and The Discovery Channel, BARAKA is a meditative look at some of the people, places, and cultures from around our unique world.
It also happens to boast some of the most spectacular, awe-inspiring picture quality to ever grace the blu-ray format.
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One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen.
I think what makes Baraka work so well, even with no dialogue, is that the editing connects the clips in a way that makes sense and gives the footage a larger context and purpose. It's one of the most awe-inspiring things I've ever seen and I will be going to sleep to the score for years to come. Watched this with my dad and really enjoyed talking about all the scenes. It's a soothing and thought-provoking film.
Yes.
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Baraka was written, directed, filmed and edited by Ron Fricke and a team of five cinematographers over a 14-month period in 24 countries, across 6 continents.
A technical marvel, the film manages to capture something that similar narrative-less documentaries fail to, and that is the purest essence of human life. It includes people, events and locations that are different and yet somehow, remarkably similar. Tribespeople in Kenya and Brazil, religious worshipers at Mecca and the Wailing Wall, workers in cigarette factories and chicken farms, mourners at funeral pyre's on the Ganges in India. The scale of this film is immense, and yet wholly consumable without too much effort.
Mr IMDB notes that Baraka was the first film in over twenty…
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I like sitting on a river bank and watch the river flow. It gives me serenity and peace. This film gave the same kind of feel. There was nothing hard and spiky. Everything is soft. The water hitting the rock will also be soft. The rocks will be wet with green algae and they also look soft. This film gives that kind of serenity, peace and softness.
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In Arabic, the word “Baraka” refers to a kind of spiritual force which flows from god and permeates throughout the world. Baraka is neither truly an art film, nor a documentary but something else instead. It is overall a celebration of natural beauty, culture and diversity. Baraka is one of the best non-narrative films of all time because of the incredible power it manages to convey without a shred dialog or traditional narrative. It is unquestionably a cinematic masterpiece.
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Baraka
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." John Berger (1)
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
"It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware. [...] A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest....This delusion is a kind or prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves…
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What the fuck is this bullshit? Biggest example of style over substance. Was my dialogue audio channel broken? Cuz this shit had no story, yo. I thought it was the retrospective of the world from some monkey.
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