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Summary: Extraordinary Visual Journey of the Spirit
Review: Baraka does with sound, sight and the passage of time what poets only dare to do with words. The visual images filmed entirely on location on each of the Continents is breathtaking. There was no dialog, except that which developed between mind and heart. Watch it, let it sink in. Watch it again. You'll see that I haven't exagerrated.
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Summary: One Of The Best.
Review: If you've not seen this film before, I stongly recommend that you try to get to a cinema screening rather than sitting in your distraction-riddled lounge and watching it on TV or DVD. It is an engaging visual experience, one that becomes more rewarding the larger the screen gets. And if this film doesn't put life in perspective for you, nothing will.
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Summary: avoid this DVD
Review: Great film, lousy DVD (compression artifacts galore). Wait for a decent edition.
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Summary: simply brilliant
Review: if you're looking for something other than a mainstream movie, and are in need of some superb visual stimulation, then this movie is a must see. Ron Fricke does an incredible job of creating this film without any dialog. It's refreshing to see a movie that doesn't have any words yet communicates to you with the utmost clarity. Just goes to show that your mouth isn't the only way to communicate...or the right way, for that matter. The film reaches many moods of human civilization...from different religions and their similiarities to over crowded streets and their beauty in ordered chaos. Does that make sense? Regardless, this film is one of my favorites...as far as cinematography goes. It's even more breathtaking on DVD.
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Summary: This made me buy a dvd player...
Review: This documentary made me buy this DVD because I could not bear watching it on VHS. After this, I'll have to get a DVD player. Frickes work is sublime yet provocative. It trancends language and will, in years to come, be a testalment to the human condition of our time.
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Summary: Watching it now on IFC
Review: OHmiGAWD flawless. This is a MUST have. My roomate and his boyfriend and I are all watching this just transfixed. Anybody remember Koyanisquazi or however you spell? A similar kind of visual onslaught.This film is very powerful...... GET IT
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Summary: Ron Fricke's masterpiece
Review: This film is not only a worthy successor to Koyaanisqatsi (Fricke's 1983 installment concerning similiar material, only taking place entirely within the U.S.) but is perhaps Ron Fricke's finest film. That's not an easy thing for someone who thought that Koyaanisqatsi was one of the most visually breathtaking films ever made (along with Kubrick's 2001), but Baraka expands its territory to include the entire globe, with a combination of images and music that inspires thoughts as to what exactly the filmmakers had in mind, much like 2001, in invites speculation as to the meaning of its intent. Is Baraka simply gorgeous eye-candy? Maybe, but I really doubt it. I can see how it would be very easily dismissed by people of "right-wing" political values as being "New-Agey" and "ultra-leftist", but I think that would be missing the point as well. Filmmaker Fricke has presented us with a meditation on the defintion of what is to be human, in all its various guises, and in effect showing how rich our peculiar species really is. Baraka is one of best indie films of the last decade, and one of the most significant documentaries ever made.
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Summary: The benchmark DVD
Review: If you're looking for a DVD to show off your home theatre system this is the one! Even better, when you need to regain some perspective on the human condition and your place in the world this movie is the one. Truly stunning work. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up on DVD.
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Summary: Meandering wonder
Review: I worry sometimes about films like this . . . it seems to just fuel the fire of those that would like nothing better than to return to the primitive times and live in a jungle. Then they complain about the lousy DVD transfer! :) Hrrm. This film has many beautiful and startling images, and the soundtrack is superior to any of the others in the genre. There is even order and serenity in the seemingly chaotic urban centers. It's a very settling film -- not really lulling anyone into complacency, just acceptance of the complexity of our world. I can't give it five stars because video, no matter how expertly transferred, can not do it justice. And for the fact that it couldn't keep me from falling asleep (it may have been doomed there, I was exhausted; it did do better than Microcosmos, though).
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Summary: Better than Koyaanisqatsi
Review: Baraka pushes forward the thought-provoking, nature-in-torment, narrative-free, meditative genre that was kickstarted by Koyaanisqatsi. The pictures are fabulously clear, the photgraphy brilliant. The music is the most amazing feature, though, combining instruments and styles from around the world in an impressively creative way. For example, the bagpipes and drums that blare out as the oil fields of Kuwait burn always raise the hairs on the back of my neck. If you liked Koyaanisqatsi you'll love this.
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