Naqoyqatsi (2002)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Godfrey Reggio

Guionista:

Godfrey Reggio (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 enero 2003 (Czech Republic)

Género:

Documental | Deporte

Frase comercial:

Test-drive the future

Plot:

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by gobalized technology and violence.

Plot Keywords:

Technology | Violence | One Word Title | Mandelbrot Fractal | Part Animated

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Spectacularly disappointing

Reparto

Marlon Brando	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bella Donna	...	(archive footage)
Elton John	...	Himself (archive footage)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus	...	Herself (archive footage)
Bhagwan Mirchandani	...	Business Man
Steven Soderbergh	...	Man reflected in digital screens (3rd segment)

También conocida como:

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (USA) (poster title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for violent and disturbing images, and for brief nudity.

Duración:

89 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Hungary:14 | Australia:G | Germany:6 | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:G | USA:PG (certificate #39003)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Michigan Central Depot - W. Vernor and W. Michigan Avenues, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Compañía:

Miramax Films

Trivialidades:

The film's title has three meanings according to the closing credits. They are (1) a life of killing each other (2) war as a way of life and (3) civilized violence (interpretation).

Conexiones de Película:

Editado desde Anima Mundi (1992)

Spectacularly disappointing

Having enjoyed Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqatsi I was looking forward to this third part of the Qatsi trilogy and seeing what direction it had taken. Rarely has a film so spectacularly failed to live up to its predecessors and lost its way. Although it tries to represent "civilised warfare" in the form of sport, science, trade and other forms of competition, it lacks the global scope and even the coherently developed themes of its predecessors. War is chaos, but even wars have an aim in mind and this film had little structure and unclear goals.

Naqoyqatsi is flawed by being a chaotic melange of images that does little to develop its theme. On the plus side, it wisely avoided using some of the iconic images of last century's wars.

Naqoyqatsi is also so insular that several times I had to remind myself that I was not watching an advertisement promoting the American way of life. Perhaps this insularity reflects the ongoing "War on Terror". When representing "sport as war" the prominent team logos ensured that the USA was depicted as the winner. Hence it missed the opportunity to depict some of the many sports around the world and showing that humanity is united in its use of sport as a form of civilised warfare.

Apart from newsreel, the footage seemed to have been shot on a budget in the confines of New York and there was little recognition of "life as war" in the rest of the world. The gallery of faces (waxworks) gave only a nod to the existence of important personages outside of the USA. The makers missed the point that globalisation does not mean Americanisation.

The Philip Glass soundtrack sounded much like every other Philip Glass score I've heard (with the possible exception of Koyaanisqatsi) and at best can be described as "inoffensive" neither adding to, nor detracting from, the chaotic imagery.