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A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Marlon Brando
- Self
- (archive footage)
Elton John
- Self
- (archive footage)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Self
- (archive footage)
Troy Aikman
- Self (at Super Bowl XXX)
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
The Beatles
- Themselves
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Osama bin Laden
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Fidel Castro
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Warren Christopher
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Bill Clinton
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
The Dalai Lama
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Thomas A. Edison
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Albert Einstein
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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- TriviaThe film's title has three meanings according to the closing credits. They are (1) a life of killing each other (2) war as a way of life and (3) civilized violence (interpretation).
- Crazy creditsStudio Feng Shui ... Marti Lovell
- ConnectionsEdited from Buffalo Running (1883)
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koyanisqaatsi no but important film in its own ways
first off i consider koya one of my top movies and think highly of powa as well. this is not either of those movies. it has been made in a different time .
because my expectations were so entrenched i had to stop this movie halfway thru thinking it was crap and take a break.
then i came back to it and really enjoyed the last half. not to say this movie is as well crafted as koyaniqaatsi because it isn't.
but it is very different, the linear sense of koya is gone replaced with chaotic and seemingly unrelated images thrown together into a relentless barrage. At first i struggled to find the underlying theme/string that connected it all as such was in koyanisqaatsi but there was none and i became disappointed. but perhaps the movie is more reflective of the chaotic barrage of information we live in. the unending information and violence overload.
in koyanisqatsi i felt hope perhaps in this nothing but the maddening roar of modern day society tearing itself apart.
its been twenty odd years since koyanisqaatsi and everything portrayed in that movie has only become more intense, more fractured. perhaps this movie lacks the simple sublimeness of the first because reggio not longer sees the world as such. the madness of modern man is much more evident in this. the oversaturation in the movie reflecting the over saturation the skewed perspective our world has.
this movie is certainly not as easy to digest as reggio's other works and i would like to return to it as some point. To those who enjoyed the first two i would say watch this but leave your preconceived notions and expectations behind.
because my expectations were so entrenched i had to stop this movie halfway thru thinking it was crap and take a break.
then i came back to it and really enjoyed the last half. not to say this movie is as well crafted as koyaniqaatsi because it isn't.
but it is very different, the linear sense of koya is gone replaced with chaotic and seemingly unrelated images thrown together into a relentless barrage. At first i struggled to find the underlying theme/string that connected it all as such was in koyanisqaatsi but there was none and i became disappointed. but perhaps the movie is more reflective of the chaotic barrage of information we live in. the unending information and violence overload.
in koyanisqatsi i felt hope perhaps in this nothing but the maddening roar of modern day society tearing itself apart.
its been twenty odd years since koyanisqaatsi and everything portrayed in that movie has only become more intense, more fractured. perhaps this movie lacks the simple sublimeness of the first because reggio not longer sees the world as such. the madness of modern man is much more evident in this. the oversaturation in the movie reflecting the over saturation the skewed perspective our world has.
this movie is certainly not as easy to digest as reggio's other works and i would like to return to it as some point. To those who enjoyed the first two i would say watch this but leave your preconceived notions and expectations behind.
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- Also known as
- Naqoyqatsi: Life as War
- Filming locations
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $133,058
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,154
- Oct 20, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $155,640
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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