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Naqoyqatsi (2002)
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Godfrey Reggio (written by)
Release Date:
21 January 2003 (Czech Republic)
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A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by gobalized technology and violence. full summary | add synopsis
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An Incoherent Barrage of Images
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Marlon Brando | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Bella Donna | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Elton John | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Bhagwan Mirchandani | ... | Business Man | |
| Jack Shamblin | ... | Atomic Adam | |
| Steven Soderbergh | ... | Man reflected in digital screens (3rd segment) |
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Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (USA) (poster title)
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Rated PG for violent and disturbing images, and for brief nudity.
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89 min
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Iceland:L |
Hungary:14 |
Australia:G |
Germany:6 |
Netherlands:AL |
New Zealand:G |
USA:PG (certificate #39003)
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The 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).
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| Does it really suck? | B-Bere |
| Query on section after the first scenes | ggeudraco |
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Having seen Koyanisqatsi and Baraka I was very much looking forward to viewing this movie to see how Godfrey Reggio's view of the world has changed and what nuggets of visual wisdom he would impart to me this time around. Needless to say (if you read the summary) I was quite disappointed in the way Mr. Reggio presented his latest film.
If one is seeing this film then one is more than likely already familiar with, and highly sensitive to, the problems that are facing the Earth today. Naqoyqatsi seems to delight in pummeling the viewer with shot after out of focused, highly contrasted, digitally altered shot of the continued plagues of the world.
Yes Mr. Reggio, we know that war is bad, that ideological conformity is limiting, that destruction of the environment threatens our future. The task now at hand is not to document the continuation of these negative historical trends but to show those of us interested how we can begin to live our lives differently to alter the course of history.
After walking out of the movie I felt I had just left an extended 90 minute MTV Yo Yo Ma music video. And not a good MTV video but one of those I-can't-concentrate-for-more-than-2-seconds music videos. Disjointed, depressing, confusing and incoherent are the words I would use to best describe this movie. Skip it.