Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
4/10
A good short but a very boring long
26 February 2001
I remember I used to like Philip Glass, until I noticed that you could listen to his music for hours on end, without the mind being engaged at all, making it a superior sort of muzak.

This film is more of the same. If you are not already aware that people sometimes look funny when shown speeded up, then you may learn something from this film, though I think this was already a cliche in the days of the Keystone Kops.

The photography is good, but in the style of minimalism, it cuts away as soon as there is any danger of the film getting interesting. I left the cinema with a new appreciation for the sights of the real world around me, like someone emerging after a long prison sentence.
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