Baraka Essay

Elan Urisoff Baraka is a movie that has no communication nor any dialogue. There is a special message throughout this film , that shows the destruction. The people all together in the world are causing destruction to our world. It speaks in magnificent images, natural sounds, and music both composed and discovered. The movie is very spiritual and it regards the problems and life upon it. Every scene has a different plot to it and each scene shows how the people live, what they believe in etc. A large group of men, shaped in a circle, join in dancing, bowing, standing, , sitting, standing, their arms in the air, their fingers are shaped like the wings of birds, their voices as there saying a poem. They wear necklaces and bracelets made from countless tiny beads, their arms and faces painted in a pattern of dots. They dip a plastic comb in paint and rotate it across their skin to leave the dots. Their dancing resembles an spiritual dance that shows their true worship to god. This shows how the poor people of that country are happy about the nature around them and it shows what other countries have, what they don't. They live in boxes made out of the natural resources around them. Scavengers, in an huge garbage dump in India, claw at the refuse to make a living, competing with birds,dogs and cows. Women, children are barefoot looking for food and trying to stay alive. Bold young children, climb up on a truck to grab a treasure in the new garbage coming in. They are all, dressed up in cheap indian fabrics. Its a land where a woman can crawl from a cardboard box on the sidewalk and stand up looking elegantly dressed. As society moves further away from nature the end result is widespread war and genocide, thats causing the world to be different in every country. Eggs, thousands of them, on a conveyor belt. Recently hatched chicks, dressed in yellow down come from a conveyor belt down a chute onto