Koyaanisqatsi's Life Out Of Balance

Koyaanisqatsi, meaning "Life Out of Balance," is a 1983 documentary that shows how humans have separated and isolated themselves from Earth’s natural environment. With no actors, no plot, and no script, the film works by showing different real life shots of North America’s natural enhancements. The music and images highlight the importance of understanding the connection we have with nature. If watching a movie of the before and after of our human nature, the positive energy that watching nature brings to us, then we must be really ignorant to not clearly see that we need to be more physically and mentally connected to nature in order to have a balanced life.
Furthermore, an astonishing part of the movie was the presentation of the mines,
explosions, and rockets going off. The United States government spends tremendous amount of money to explore new areas of the solar system, they want to conquer other worlds, and find another habitable planet, but never seem to understand that if they do not start working towards helping and fixing this one, then there will be no more of them. When the film portrayed humans as sausages, everything made sense, we are eating ourselves and becoming commodities in society, we are not innovating or inventing because we have fallen into a uninteresting cycle of repetition. The silent, yet screaming movie helped me realize why most human beings dream of just traveling. When people put their whole attention on their job or school, even a lover, they eventually feel trapped, as if they need clean air to escape the fixation they are living in this dull society. However, going away only heals you for a short amount of time, and once you feel fixated again you repeat the process all over again. Thus, we never escape the unbalanced relationship we have with the natural world, unless we prioritize differently.
In addition, the main point of this film it to help us understand that we need to get out of the exploding rocket and understand that we do have limits. In the future, we might be able to govern Mars, and even Jupiter (probably not this one), but we should first enjoy, appreciate, and help this planet we are currently part of. Everything is about balance, our mind needs nature. The physical commodity we stack up in our lives does not necessarily mean that is what our minds want. Once we realize that what we perceive of happiness is what our corrupt leaders of this society wants us to live by, not because it’s good for us, but because it’s good for them. We are the unbalanced commodities that serves to physically balance the ones destroying the beauty of Earth.