1 Giant Leap
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Movie Reviews of 1 Giant Leap
Movie Review: A Giant Loop
Summary: 4 Stars
Imagine taking musical and spoken voices from around the world and blending them into a poetic, sonic mix. A Giant Leap is a Giant Loop of planetary sounds and soulful reflections on everything from Sex to the Sacred. Here's a production you can re-visit from time to time and uncover finer nuances of meaning or wilder currents of emotion.Movie Review: Sonido 5.1 y un interesante making off
Summary: 4 Stars
Son videos explicativos de como realizaron el cd. Los videos más conocidos del cd también se encuentran. Una curiosidad para adquirir. Pero si esperaba algo que le agregara mas sabor al cd esto no es para usted.Movie Review: Great music, pointless film
Summary: 3 Stars
Two young white guys went around the world and recorded lots of musical performances in India, Thailand, New Zealand and Africa. They put it all together and made some great music that might remind you a bit of Deep Forest or other such world beat projects.
That would have been enough.
But they decided to make a film. Which they didn't do as well. It seems that perhaps they had no particular agenda, that they went around talking to whoever would agree to an interview and then later in the editing process put pieces together that seem to fit a thematic whole. Much of it is just arm-chair philosophizing, and from perhaps not too astute philosophers such as former porn star Sharon Mitchell and actor Dennis Hopper. Authors Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins and activist/business woman Anita Roddick make some pointed observations, but the rest could have been left on the cutting room floor.
If you have a choice, skip the DVD and buy the CD instead.
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Movie Review: Interesting...sort of.
Summary: 2 Stars
A melange of quick-cut, commercial-style, mostly third-world images (think Powaqqatsi on fast-forward, but without the thematic cohesion) set to a pan-Indian/African flavored soundtrack (similar to the band Deep Forest), interspersed with occasionally insightful, sometimes banal philosophical and political observations by mostly non-academics (actors, musicians, etc.) on a variety of themes (time, death, money, etc.) at one theme per chapter. Each chapter is accompanied by its own song, and each song is a skillfully assembled montage of the voices and instruments of musicians from around the world, recorded on location and later interwoven. The sound quality is good (excellent 5 channel separation), but suffers from a certain sameness throughout (compare the soundrack to Baraka, for example, which has greater variety and remains truer to place and theme). Shots of the skillful musicians performing are surprisingly uninspiring and prosaic (the film needs a good cinematographer). Editing is frenetic, lacking the visual poetry of Baraka or even the vastly overrated Godfrey Reggio films, and half of the too-short and frequently repetitive scenes in each chapter aren't well contextualized and could just as easily have been in another chapter. Unfortunately, the frequent speaking parts impede the film's success as a good ambient video (at a party for example), and because the speaking parts aren't voiceovers, it also fails when used in that manner with your own music instead of the film's own soundrack (who wants music to an ordinary talking head, even of ex-pornstar Sharon Mitchell). Eh.Movie Review: 1 Giant Leap
Summary: 2 Stars
I became aware of this title through the local Cable Combine's on-demand function. But for Vonnegut's association, I could have easily neglected this significant treatise combining musical, philosophical, spiritual, etc., commentaries reflecting much of what is fundamentally important to our human collective. As such, the broadcast projects fabulous power, so I looked into the DVD. Featuring 155 minutes, I thought, "Great! The DVD is twice as long as the teevee version." So, I order the DVD but am distressed to learn that we can't simply run the entire program with one simple press of the play button but must instead manually start each chapter!! Annoying!!! That significantly detracts from an otherwise noteworthy sequence. So much for continuity. For that reason, the producers have earned 1 Giant Leap two stars.