life disintegrating

Ellen 2022-01-09 08:01:58

The pure audiovisual language of Reggio & Glass.

I really don't like the idea of ​​the entire film's structure. If I say that I would rather misinterpret it as "all social orders are dangerous buildings surrounded by chaos."

In fixed-point and sports photography, the photographer plays the object (observer)/subject (participant) respectively. However, in the eyes of the viewers of the film produced by the photographer, is it not that the photographer as the observer becomes the subject because of his observation, and the photographer as the participant becomes the object because of his participation? ? From this point of view, the viewer never enters the photographer's perspective to watch, but observes the photographer's perspective. What we see is not the eternal architecture in fixed-point photography and the abstract architecture in sports photography, not all rational and abnormal parts, not clear faces and phantom crowds. Watching is an action that can be nested.

At the end of the film, several meanings of KOYAANISQATSI are given. It can be said that life out of balance is the most inconsistent translation. Crazy life’s moral stand is too strong, life in turmoil is too rigid, a state of life that calls for another way of living is too unclean and subjective is too strong, and it feels like life disintegrating is the kind of person who slowly tightens the viewer with the rhythm of the film The ambition of the Throat section.

In addition, the "time-space" game about the film is still worth playing, but it seems that I have not been able to give a satisfactory rhetoric.

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Extended Reading
  • Madalyn 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Some "cheesy" clips are trance-like under the background of the context and music, but it is the music that takes a lot of work and the "Apocalypse" at the end that brings the originally divine and poetic images back to the self-appreciation of human beings. In clichés. (A lot of contemporary artists are now shooting similar experimental images, but they did not escape the traditional film mode, and they are quite avant-garde in the contemporary context.)

  • Thomas 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Shocking, from nature to city to assembly line to people, and finally back to nature, echoing at the end! No wonder Coppola wants to be the producer! In the early 1980s, the assembly line was soon full of Asians and Latinos. At that time, KFC was still the full name! Later, the mysterious yellow of heaven and earth, and human beings, are all the same routines, right? I feel a little confused after reading it!

Koyaanisqatsi quotes

  • Choir: Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi...

  • title card: ko-yaa-nis-qatsi

    [from the Hopi language]

    title card: n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.