...and if you stay awake through the first hour, you'll be treated to a heavy-handed 'wake-up call' sequence showcasing the beauty of nature and the horror of pollution. Very hip stuff!
I gotta give this movie credit for its beautiful photography and hypnotic (in that 'put-you-to-sleep' kind of way) quality. Apart from that--yikes. Reggio has really lost it. I bet it'd be pretty intense after a few hits of acid, though!
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Are you for real? I don't even want to be a dick because I'm sure you're a nice guy and I think your post may have been sincere, but that might be the most uncomfortably pretentious thing I've ever read. But hey, if you liked the movie, more power to ya!
shareRemember the brief shots of the amusement park?
Amusement park rides offer a split second mind-shattering death-defying thrill
The wooden roller coaster is a piece of open-air Herculean art (and a tremendous waste of wood), intricately and intelligently designed, a labyrinthe of wilderness wood, a monument to man's mastery of physics, but people barely notice nor think about the beauty and precision of the latticework design nor the sunlight and puzzle pieces of blue sky flashing through the design turning the lattices into glittering diamonds, nor do they think about the implications of the physics at work (the physics of the ride is intentionally designed to bring you near death to generate a thrill, and one tiny microscopic flaw in the design or the wood or mechanics can and will bring down the entire structure, looking at you, Son of the Beast) as they flash through the ride. In the blink of an eye people are borne through a wondrous fusion of wood, sun, sky, oftentimes forested areas...., sometimes water, and physics, the elements necessary to Life, and the riders are not thinking about it because the coaster is moving too fast to allow anybody to seriously look at what they're passing through, the entire experiences flashes by like life flashing by, and people are on the ride for the split-second thrill, an amusement immediately gone and forgotten once had
Then the amusement park is abandoned, something magnificently and precisely designed according to the universe's laws of physics, something that provided incalculable moments of split-second pleasure for incalculable numbers of people, now spectrally vaunted like Ozymandias, the ride of life over
People race through the roller coaster of life without barely a split-second thought about anything other than achieving a split-second of satisfaction, quickly had and even more quickly forgotten
That split second is human existence on the evolutionary scale (humans are split second visitors)
The slow meditative pace of the film is in protest of that split second
That slow meditative pace of the film is a counterweight to the split second
That slow meditative pace of the film thrusts you inside the split second
And the split second evolves into an 87 minute hypnotic ontological gaze pondering humanity's footprint
Did you just delete your original response and then inexplicably re-post it, VERBATIM, 2 years later? Not sure what the point of that move was--your post is still pretentious drivel.
Maybe try again in another few years?