Kenneth Tappan - Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi was a very powerful film that used many powerful images that truly made the viewer think. During the movie again and again I was trying to make connections, I was trying to see the significance. While watching these series of images the music throughout the movie was very powerful. In the beginning it was solemn and kind of scary and at other times it was upbeat and seemed to very busy. The music combined with the images truly portrayed something powerful. I believe every individual who watched this film got something different from it. In my mind this film said to me that people and what we do are meaningless. During the film we are equated to hot dogs being packaged. This in my mind says how we have become something that we are not supposed to be. The other powerful scene was the beginning and the end. Koyaanisqatsi starts out showing the launching of a rocket. The beginning seems alien at first and it is a little scary, but when you realize what it is it becomes a very awe inspiring image combined with the music. At the very end we see the same rocket being destroyed in a fiery explosion. I took this scene as being so depressing. The rocket is at the forefront of modern day technology. Space is something that humans have not conquered and have not completely learned fully about, and to see something that is considered to be so great and so awe inspiring blown up in seconds says to me that what we do is meaningless. Here is something that is considered to be at the pinnacle of human technology and it could not defeat the laws of nature. Overall, this movie told me that people are corrupting the world but the world will have the last laugh.