Baraka
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Movie Reviews of Baraka
Movie Review: Astounding .... Closest thing to IMAX in your house
Summary: 5 Stars
Baraka an ancient wordwhich tranlates into 'blessing' is very aptly named as a reminder to us of the intrinsic beauty of the world and all of Gods creatures.
Filmed in 70 mm in 24 countries we get a birds eye view of the world around us without the unneccesary babbling of some idiot announcer telling us what we are seeing. Also we get no incoherent diatribe by politically correct idiots trying to put these wonderfull scenes into meaningless words .... The idiocy and the appreciation of beauty comes from your friends who may see this DVD with you.... I was was awed by the beauty of this DVD only to be surprised by one of my friends to find that she thinks the movie was 'depressing' ..... WOW ...
It's not a DVD movie but rather an event or an experience .... a hust have for ANY video collection
Movie Review: A kaleidoscopic tour de force!
Summary: 5 Stars
24 countries, thirteen years of shooting, made to emerge one of my most beloved cult movies of the nineties. A visual symphony filmed in the most sumptuous locations, where ancestral beliefs, mesmerizing landscapes, arresting eclipses, admirable images will involve you from start to finish.
Overpopulation, hunger, war weapons, cemetery of B- 52, tree's destruction, Nepal's sunrises, Ganges scenes, rituals, faun and flora are interweaved with merciless repetitively alienating activities, the urban jungle, the struggling traffic coexist under the force of we usually esign as normal life.
Ron Fricke depicted an admirable testimonial that certainly over passed the power of the words to let it feel through their hypnotic images.
An excel document for future's memory.
Movie Review: Great to see it released in anamorphic format, finally
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great film, so great that I now own three copies of it (I am not making this up). It is a testament to the ignorance of DVD developers that I have had to abandon my second purchase of Baraka (my first was the VHS tape) because it was not in anamorphic widescreen format. This means that on my 30" widescreen HDTV, my only two choices were to watch the original aspect ratio in a tiny little centered 20" screen, or to watch it stretched out and distorted.On this third go-around, I finally have a decent picture and am happy. I hope that Amazon.com proceeds to always be vigilant about reporting whether or not the DVDs that it sells are in anamorphic widescreen format.
This is a great film and is a casual-viewing alternative to the more substantive and didactic -qatsi trilogy by Goddfrey Reggio.
Movie Review: Not an imitation
Summary: 5 Stars
A visually stunning, beautiful sounding and very moving film about humanity, nature, religion and culture, and how they all interact. Slow, methodical, and rewarding. It is important to note that this film is not an imiation of "Koyaanisqatsi" nor is it plagiarism, as it is sometimes labeled. Director Ron Fricke was the cinematographer, picture editor and co-writer of "Koyaanisqatsi," and when that film was completed, Fricke was disappointed with how negative the message of it was, so he set out on his own to create a film the would show positive images as well as negative ones, trying to relate a more coprehensive and objective view of man's effect on this planet.
Both films are well worth the effort of seeing. (Especially on a big screen if you ever get the chance.)
Movie Review: Wow!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a film with no words, no characters, and no plot, Baraka ("blessing" in Sufi) can be a bit tough to explain to people. It is not a movie, nor a documentary exactly. It is more of a visual and emotional adventure all over the world that will make you re-examine your place in it. More than a glorified screensaver of beautiful nature scenes, the film includes everything from majestic landscapes to religious rituals to jarring scenes of city life. It is partly a commentary on consumption and pantheism, though it is also very open to the viewer's interpretation. Director Ron Fricke filmed the collage of video vignettes at over 150 locations in 24 countries and captured every stunning image in high fidelity 70mm. This is an amazing example of cinematography and a great conversation piece.