1 Giant Leap
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Movie Reviews of 1 Giant Leap
Movie Review: Mildly interesting, but mostly a disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
A great deal of hard work and technical and artistic expertise have gone into making this ingeniously-designed film, but IMHO it was mostly to no avail. While the film contains some beautiful imagery and some beautiful music, its philosophizing is truly lame, and I found several of the speakers who appear in the film to be enormously pretentious, stupid, and irritating. This is MTV-style pseudo-philosophy of the shallowest kind.Movie Review: yet another one, much better, exists
Summary: 2 Stars
you all probably didn't see swedish 'lucky people center international'go find it and you will forget about this leap
'lucky people..' is a real masterpiece of 'koyaanisqatsi' level, much much more clever, nice and driving
Movie Review: Misleading and disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I came to this DVD after having heard the music CD first. I anticipated it being about the making of the music and the musicians involved. Some of that is shown (although NONE of the musicians is identified!), and to be sure, the music is great.
Othewise, this is a bunch of rambling nonsense, an anti-modern, anti-Western amalgam of New Age nonsense and just plain stupidity masquerading as profundity. Eastern and aboriginal religions get reverent regard, even the Hindus bathing and worshipping in the sewage-choked Ganges, but Christianity is the only religion help up to specific criticism. It merely proves the old saw about "tolerance" and naive multi-culturalism: It's ABC--anything but Christianity.
Some of the speakers (again, all unidentified in the film; you'll have to go to the special features and hunt deeply to find out who SOME of them are) bring up good points about materialism and exploitation, but they offer no solutions. An unidentified Maori decries how American rappers such as Tupac Shakur now have more influence on Maori youngsters than their own traditions, but the only real example of Maori music we get is--wait for it!--a Maori rapper a la Tupac! Another speaker actually favors killing humans to spare cows!
Buy the CD and enjoy the great music. Skip the nonsensical DVD unless you need a good laugh.
Movie Review: 1 Giant loss
Summary: 1 Stars
If you have seen Baraka, then pass this one up.It is a cheap, over produced, myopic, new-age attempt at racial relations.
If this is what you're looking for, then buy it.
If I could return a dvd based strictly upon content, I would have done so.