I was disappointed - what is the connection to samsara?

Taking on such a rich and complex concept like "samsara" would surely be hard to live up to, but it just didn't hit the mark for me. Samsara as a concept signifies the constant cycle of life and rebirth, and the suffering we endure as individuals, that seeking nirvana endeavors to escape.

The filming, rather than watching individual human life with intimacy, seemed obsessed with stunning, larger than life scenes of beauty and order. In reality, most of the world is dirty, chaotic, unorganized, and small. There was an over-reliance on nature-scapes, and of people participating in group activities (working in a factory, dancing, praying together) rather than personal activities that would show personality, individuality, and a sight of a person's soul who is living their own samsara.

Samsara is also an age-old concept, and some Buddhist texts imply that the cycle has been going on for eons. But instead of focusing on the timeless aspects of human life, this film seemed to be trying to prove a point about the modern world, a post-industrial, wasteful society that lacks humanity. But to me, it came across as a film that lacks humanity for the same reason.

I've done a lot of traveling like these filmmakers, and what you see is the same everywhere. People waking, bathing, cooking, cleaning, traveling, working, being social, loving, celebrating, grieving. I think there was a missed opportunity here to show that we are all the same, living lives deeply and with difficulty but in differing locales. Instead, they seemed to be trying to make some kind of point about societal organization and our impersonal place within it, and the ways we are blind and failing the planet in our haphazard societal evolution.

I just don't see the connection to the concept of samsara. I can think of a thousand other titles that would suit it better. It makes me wonder what they were really thinking.