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Summary: Filmeditation
Review: The images and sounds will take you beyond your usual perceptions, and will coninue to flash through your mind days after watching it. The universe will seem a lot friendlier and smaller, and a freedom of thought and spirit will capture you as the result of this mangifient artistry. Baraka is a Bravo.
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Summary: The Cycle Of Life Does Not Change
Review: "Baraka" is a film that each time I view it gets me right in the heart. It goes beyond the cinematic and musical production values that Fricke has mastered. It touches the soul and enlightens the mind as to what life is all about. The simple, yet beautiful, function of nature..how we've screwed it up..and how religion justifies the means to our actions. Down through history, "Baraka" shows how much and how little humankind has changed. Food for thought in an age of the potential for our instant and total destruction. "Baraka" touches my spiritual existence. It should be required viewing to anyone who cares about or is concernd about the "Koyaanisqatsi" humanity has created.
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Summary: Baraka will evoke joy, pity, fear, anger...and love
Review: Set to the music of ethnic chants and indigenous instruments from around the world, this film will compel you to see the world in a new light. You'll see beautiful vistas of terraced paddy fields, deserts, and city scapes. You'll see the dances of the aboriginees, african tribes, and amazon Indians. You'll see the faithful praying in places of worship that range from the Vatican to the shores of Ganges. In short you'll see how similar we all are beneath our different wardrobes and languages and faiths. The score to the movie complements the scenes and intensifies the emotions one feels watching the movie. Particularly haunting are the scenes of burning oil fields in Kuwait set to the music of Scottish bagpipes, Tibetan water music, and Japanese drumming. The movie explores love, faith, joy, war, death, rebirth and circle of life by showing scenes from around the world for each of these topics. Each time I have watched this movie I find myself discovering more of its hidden meanings. I think each viewer will come out with his own feelings and interpretations. But even if one isn't inclined to be philosophical, the music and cinematography alone is worth getting the DVD.
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Summary: art or cinema
Review: i saw baraka for the first time about a month ago and was hooked. i drove to cape town to watch the new movie by godfrey reggio called naquoiqatsi at the cinema nouveao. well, i am now a true fan and i would love to own and see powaqqatsi and koyaanisqatsi.
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Summary: Pretentious is a word.
Review: This film is, to me, nothing more than an exquisitely endered screen saver. Its 'message' is simple, trite and after a while repetitive. It is a good advertisement for bourgois holiday makers looking for 'gritty... oooh magawd!' holiday experiences. A higher 'new age vacuity' quotient than should be allowed in a feature length film.
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Summary: Speechless.
Review: This is more than a movie. Baraka trancends everyt movie you have watched. It offers a true glimpse of reality in the world. The imagery is utterly captivating, while at the same time, sincerely touching. I could not even write a review of this movie to give it all that it deserves. This is a must for anyone looking for that something in life.
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Summary: Remarcable, no words to describe
Review: A remarcable movie about world, humanity, unity in diversity, spirituality and search for a meaning, "as is", with the pluses and minuses of ourselves. No politics, race, religion, no comments and no words at all. If you feel you're not happy and content with your life, see this movie. A must have!
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Summary: Calm pleasure
Review: In a world where we are being slammed with screaming advertisements from the TV to the roadways, this collection of moving images is like having your senses massaged. The only dialogue is the glorious soundtrack, which I immediatly ran out and bought after I saw this film. If you're a movie or TV junkie, take a nice break from MTV and primetime. If you want to rent it, chances are that Blockbuster won't carry it...allowing you to discover that independent video rental store hidden two blocks away.
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Summary: Enter the Matrix
Review: Amazing...watch the Matrix first and then watch this. I bet you will love this sooooo much more! It's just fun to imagine a machine trying to recreate the diversity and minute details that our Creator has built into our everyday lives. Enter Baraka and be amazed!
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Summary: blessings
Review: Baraka is the arabic word for blessing. I've got this from a friend as a gift, and i should thank her alot. it is a free sprirt traveling far and wide, just to see how different we are, and how we must appreciate these differences.
but the 'Chicken' chapter was incredible. forget about chicken meals from now on...
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