Koyaanisqatsi Film Analysis

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Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance, life in turmoil, life that calls for another way of living, and additionally, a perfect juxtaposition of our flawed society and where it came from. The poignant images evoke a certain feeling of empathy for ourselves and the human race as a whole. Throughout the film, the images tend to focus around the general idea of habit. In many of the scenes it seems fairly obvious that everyone's actions are habitual and almost choreographed. For example, in Part 7, the music and mood tend to change depending on the people it’s showing (orderly businessmen or joyful sightseers). Everyone’s actions seem memorized rather than goal-oriented. This idea seems to tie in with other ideas from the film such as motivation and

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