Baraka

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Summary: BEYOND WORDS
Review: While recently completing a questionnaire for a personals profile, I was asked to describe my most humbling moment. The best answer i could think of is every time i watch this movie. Nothing makes me realize the immensity of the world in which we live quite like Baraka.

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Summary: There are no words to describe it
Review: To know how far a Cinema director can go, buy this movie.
I cannot explain how wonderful it is.

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Summary: Addicting Spiritual Experince!
Review: Baraka in one word is addicting! If one understands the concept that the important is not where you are but is "what's there?", this film can be a spiritual, emotional, life changing journey.
It is addicting just because every time one whatches the film, deeper he/she goes and more is found there, beyond the images. The scenery an sondtrack are so rich and work so well together that this sinergy actually makes the film being felt as emotions.
For me it works as a therapy.
If you want to have the ultimate experience go for a big screen TV set and a 5.1 stereo sistem. But beware cause you may fly!

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Summary: Summary of humanity
Review: I agree very much with the reviewer who wrote that it is hard to review this movie without sounding cliche or naive. Baraka is truly a unique movie and you should go out and see it.

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Summary: This movie was a YAWNER
Review: This movie was boring. I don't honestly don't understand how anyone could like it. The soundtrack was just a bunch of nature sounds albeit edited very well. It wasn't a music soundtrack.

Unfortunately, it's this that causes the movie to be nothing more than a glorified one-hour documentary on the Discovery channel.

Koyaanisqatsi is a lot better. It's got Philip Glass that goes very well with the scenes.

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Summary: Plagiarisqatsi
Review: If "Koyaanisqatsi" (which "Baraka" director Ron Fricke edited) had never been made, this film would deserve great attention. But Fricke re-uses so many of the memorable images from "Koyaanisqatsi" and so artlessly rehashes its style that one wonders whether lawyers were ever involved. The producers, interviewed in a behind-the-scenes documentary, also seem oddly dispirited. The poor DVD transfer -- obviously from an analog source and abounding with artifacts and interlace flicker -- reinforces one's disappointment. They even missed a great opportunity to provide alternative audio tracks or captions with descriptions of what we're seeing.

This film deserves three stars nonetheless for stunning photography and the new wonders it does show us. One can't help thinking that even the fanciest digital artifice still can't compare to accomplished cinematogaphy of the real beauty of the world.

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Summary: The language of Film
Review: It is truly amazing to find a handcrafted work of art that guides you, without using concepts and words, into your own world in two hours of fascinating journey.

The music, the rythm, the photography, the whole MEANING of it all is memerizing.Guys, this DVD is truly an eye opener, I think you'll look at the world differently after this experience.

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Summary: BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHY
Review: I expected this to be more in the genre of "Koyaaniskatsi", but it wasn't quite that deep or symbolic. The best part of this DVD is the imagary. The filming is crisp, clean and the colors are vibrant. Most of the scenes are very pleasing and/or interesting. Some of the soundtrack weaves beautifully with the images but some of the music was so harsh or odd that I found it to be more of a distraction to the film than a complement. Overall I think this was a tremendous amount of work for the filmakers and it's well worth watching.

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Summary: As Great or Better than Koyaanisqatsi
Review: This film I got from a recommendation from a website dedicated to Koyaanisqatsi. The images and DVD format is outstanding, the soundtrack is outstanding, the message is outstanding. Get this one before it becomes a collectible, hard to find like Koyaanisqatsi.

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Summary: A look at the whole world...in a couple of hours
Review: First of all, don't be worried that there is no dialogue in this film. After seeing it for yourself, you'll know why. I have found that watching it with people you know presents a very good forum for discussion and you'll more than likely find the same. The camera work is nothing short of pheonomenal and the time lapse, etc. is equally amazing. Each person will have his or her own favorite part(s), but certain moods will make you like certain parts more than others. I found it relaxing, perplexing, insightful, and at some points, scary - all at once. I know that may have sounded perplexing in itself, but trust me, you'll see what I mean when you watch it. Sit down, relax and see what our world consists of from another's eyes insted of CNN, National Geographic, etc. The crew that filmed BARAKA was very good at not interfering with the daily goings on in the settings that they filmed. ENJOY

-arjay