Humanity purports to aim for the stars. But sure as gravity, its self-destructive nature will remain undefeated. The most powerful display of nihilism in cinema history
I've watched the Apollo series rocket ship exploded in mid air I cry when the music shifts and the camera focused on the piece of flaming wreckege and I'm wondering if it was astronauts in it when it exploded or a satellite launch or something can anyone tell me what happened there
I looked it up it was not a manned rocket most think it was the challenger but it was the launch and explosion of the first atlas a test launch failure of a missile modified to a space rocket and it was a failure of the outer shield that caused a serge in pressure to the engine the piece of flaming wreckege fell in the water 😢
Humanity can build anything, guns, tanks, bombs, highways, great cities, massive tombs. We can build so much, but yet, we are often forced to watch the Universe’s unending ability to destroy.
Whenever i use headphones for too long, (usually listening to musics) top of my head begins to terribly hurt. (It’s kinda weird since top of my head remains untouched by the headphone) By the end of watching this film with my headphones, I was in a total agony. Good film tho.
Remeber Hopi prophecies: If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster. Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky. A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.
Great part of this movie exists, as a short silent documentary, ten years before, I am italian, in my country at that time color tv did not exists, I was in Switzerland at the time for some days, as a child I was mesmerized by their color TV programs, and I saw the "prototype" of this movie, work of same authors I Think, and/or, there is a mention of it, in the final credits of the movie
My Beloved Brother, You my tautological Myself, Thomeo, as in this time and that realm we've got met each other and recognized each other -- that's for You/Me.
That revolving fragment of the Atlas-Centaur rocket spinning down to earth looks to me like a broken human body : head with top of skull and brain missing, legs torn off and the arms jagged bones mostly stripped of flesh, and fire consuming the organs in the hollowed-out torso from where a blackened rope of intestines stream.
Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned.
I remember how I decided to watch this movie, looking at his assessment and not at all imagining what he is like. I'll be honest that I was almost asleep by the middle of the movie, but it's worth watching in its entirety at least for this final scene. This outburst of emotions and stupefaction immediately after the dragging scenes of the film is perhaps the best thing that happened to me when watching)
1:09 begins the haunting denouement, which follows the object into space while the chant that began the movie returns. The message is that the faster we go, the farther we get from where we need to be. Gets me every time.
Icarus started to enjoy the flight, for all its perils, so he left his guide and, filled with a desire to reach heaven, pursued a higher path. His close approach to the fierce Sun softened the fragrant wax which held his wings in place. The wax melted. He flapped his naked arms, but since he had no oar-like wings, he failed to catch the air. While his mouth was screaming his father’s name, his cries were drowned out by the sky-blue sea which takes its name from him.
I just wasted 1 hour of my life watching the movie in reverse on youtube, I was wondering why the soundtrack was in reverse the entire time. Now I know its not how it was intended to be watched lol.
Gracias Rikkiiz. Hace 15 años encontre tu video. Grande, Grande,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, y bello,,,,,,, El poder del hombre, inmenso,,,,,, subiendo,,,,,, y la catástrofe, la danza de la nave, ardiendo, en el aire, como si el universo danzara ante el hombre, tras destruirle su soberbia, su orgullo, danza con los trozos ardientes de tu soberbia. Precioso, Precioso,,,,,,, No he visto nada igual con esta preciosa obra de Phillip Glass.
You may be surprised to learn that on Atlas flights they actually said numerous times that although they didn’t make it far there’s lessons to be learned Now Atlas is one of the most successful lineages of rocket flying and still does to this day in the form of Atlas V
This last fallen explosion debris reminds me of a camera. A camera that is left from our exploded civilization, still burning, but rotating trying to capture the truth around it. This last fallen explosion debris is, I believe, how Godfrey Reggio is viewing himself into the world. It is such a profound and powerful scene. And Phillip Glass score amplifies all to a heart tearing level!
Koyaanisqatsi as a whole is wonderful, but this ending section in particular is a brilliant masterpiece, which hasn't been equaled in over three decades. I'm astonished and disappointed that Phillip Glass isn't the most famous man in the world.
These final scenes were also used by 'The Gathering' in concert, during 'Travel'. Both pieces end in a similar way. Goosebumps: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y46Lft_BZxo.html from ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-egWv6YQmZB0.html
