Review of Samsara

Samsara (I) (2011)
8/10
Visually Stunning.
16 March 2013
Just watched this movie on Blue Ray and Im wishing I had watched it in the theatres. The images and cinematography in this is stunning. Absolutely brilliant camera work, the camera angles, perspectives, colours, the time lapse photography etc.

This movie is like a "yin and yang" of the world we live in. The images flow from one to another showing that there is two sides to everything. An example would be scenes of big modern cities and factories followed by scenes showing the overcrowding and pollution. Wealth and poverty. 2 scenes come to mind, prisoners in a Phillipino prison performing choreograph dancing in the exercise yard but under the watchful eyes of the wardens. The dancing prisoner's smiles contrasting with the sober faces of prisoners in their cells. Anotherscene is that of robots with human features, a sex doll factory and ladyboy dancers.

Some parts of this movie touched me with it beauty, others shocked me and some saddened me. Incredible for a movie with no words.

Even if you do not like documentaries or the subject and flow of the narrative, you will appreciate the skill involved in making this movie. This is ART.
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