Matthew Winant - Koyaanisqatsi (2/19/2009)

If I was not told that the word 'koyaanisqatsi' meant “world out of balance” or “apocalypse”, I would have not realized what the film was trying to convey. I have trouble seeing the creative undertones of artistic films, which is probably why I don't spend my time watching them. When told that the city was juxtaposed to a circuit board I saw the connect, and I definitely saw that the earth was going to be destroyed by humans. At the beginning of the film the earth was pure and looked like it was being made by the floating, fast moving cloud (God?). The first image of man or a man made object was the truck, which exploded black exhaust, showing the purpose of the film very quickly. I did not see the purpose of showing masses of people on the roadways and on escalators more than once. It is obvious that the earth is covered with people, so it was not needed in my mind to keep showing cars and crowds. I also did not see the purpose of the rocket ship from the beginning of the film, I have not decided if it shows human technological advancement, which leads to destruction as seen in the final scene in the film.