Koyaanisqatsi

The film struck me as very strange and foreign because I had never seen anything like that before. The opening scenes were very destructive but progressed to more aesthetic pictures of nature toward the end. I thought it was very interesting that the actual title for the movie took a very involved thought process. Actually meaning "a crazy way of life that needs change," Koyaanisqatsi comes from the Hopi culture which voids the movie title of cultural baggage. The director pointed out that we as Americans are no longer noticing the change from "old nature" to technology AS nature and that nature was the host, but now technology is. WE LIVE TECHNOLOGY. That statement stuck with me and made me really think of how true it is. We don't even realize its presence because literally every aspect of our lives involves some technological device which pulls us away from viewing nature as a gift from God that provides us with what we need.