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Director:
Godfrey Reggio
Writer:
Godfrey Reggio (written by)
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Release Date:
21 January 2003 (Czech Republic) more
Tagline:
Test-drive the future more
Plot:
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by gobalized technology and violence. full summary | add synopsis
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A nice surprise more (54 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (USA) (poster title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for violent and disturbing images, and for brief nudity.
Runtime:
89 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Company:
Miramax Films more

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According to the end credits, the title is pronounced nah-koy-kahtsee. more
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Edited from Perfect Dark (2000) (VG) more

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
A nice surprise, 16 July 2004
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Author: sdbloom from Spain

After reading different comments about this movie, I've decided to see it, and I'm really surprised because what I have found has little to do with what I thought it was.

Naqoyqatsi is about the loss of our natural perception of reality and its substitute: the image itself as a product of technology, the image as a weapon in a globalized war. And here comes the apparent incoherence, because the film is a parade of these images, a product of the same technological violence it is reflecting and criticizing. That's not hypocrisy; the contradiction is part of the film itself.

Although I do not completely support Reggio's point of view, I admire the way he expresses it through his films without impositions of any kind, so that the viewer can find his own perspective. While watching Naqoyqatsi, I was asking for the "original" pictures that were below those distortions and filters, but soon I realized the real world wasn't there. It was like "OK, so that's all... Well, let's see it".

A few words about the inevitable comparison with it's predecessors: if you are looking for something like Koyaanisqatsi, go see Koyaanisqatsi again. Naqoyqatsi is a different film. It does well as the third part of the Qatsi Trilogy, but like the other two, has its own "personality". And I think it's a great film. Maybe not a masterpiece like Koyaanisqatsi, but a great film.

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