Art

I was bored out of my mind while watching this film. I was entirely distracted and could not sit still. I caught up on emails and folded laundry while the images danced upon the screen. I didn't feel like I missed too much. I felt the director was wasting my time.
During the film, I began crafting a scathing review about its lack of substance, it's lack of efficient story-telling. I planned on discussing its obnoxious length. I even found this short version of the film that was squished into 5 minutes.

But...

...I found this interview with the director, Godfrey Reggio too. This interview was like an artist statement next to an abstract piece of artwork in a museum.

Reggio seems to be an incredibly intelligent man. I think his experience as a monk gave him a broad, enlightened view of the world that we as humans have created for ourselves.

He says the notion of changing the world is ludicrous. He says we must have "courage to be hopeless about this world, in order to make a more livable world." That viewpoint is refreshing after the many false promises shoved down our throats by politicians activists.

Instead of changing the world, we must understand it and decipher the chaos; I think that's what Koyaanisqatsi and  Naqoyqatsi aim to do.

Reggio says you must "stare at [the world] until it begins to look strange."  He wanted to "make the background, the foreground" in his film and open the audience's mind to the world of technology that we exist in.

I appreciate the film now, but I couldn't watch it again.