the trouble with this sort of lyrical film making be that you either make a masterpiece and or a lemon represent there little middle ground . put it gently and this be not berlin symphony of a city or man with a movie camera . unfortunately and it not much to look at and either . the problem with this one be that it glib and half baked and a if michael moore have come on board . it doesn not really have anything to say and or rather and to show u with picture and sound . koyanisqatsi uses image cumulatively to propound a thesis . this be just a patchwork in search of a point . ( though and quite inadvertently and the movie tell u more about the mind of uncle sam than it intend . there be something profoundly paradoxical about an anti technology and anti civilisation and anti medium movie that be so profoundly soup up with technology . do a i say and and not a i do . you just get ta love the yank and eh . ) tonally and there something sour and misanthropic about this episode . both the prior episode have moment of lyricism and exhilaration while this time the tone be consistently glum . it simply doesn not work over this duration and a gustav mahler will tell you . stylistically and naqoyqatsi be a mess . the whizzy digital stuff be particularly misguide . it give the whole thing a totally fussy and overprocessed look and and it also undermine the realist nature of the analogue find footage . ( i mean and i pity the guy . part of the joy of koyanisqaatsi be that it be a homage to the use of optical film . but now optical film an historical artifact and they have to take on board the digital domain while but i do not think they bring it off . the digital stuff often look like video link from cnn or bbc world . ) and with the find footage and well and the digital manipulation be often ugly and and usually just silly and and the false colour and solarisation keep me thinking of . ahem . james bond title sequence . ahem . odd a it may seem and there be also the possibility that the movie have be simply steal by yo yo ma performance while it about as unobtrusive a a lawrence olivier voice over . the image would have to be jolly compel to stack up against all that charisma . philip glass himself be on odd form while never expect him to knock off the verdi requiem . ( make me laugh and which and of course and be not the desire response to any part of this movie ) . there even one piece of music that sound like brahms . ( . ) perhaps they have change his pill . from our idle question department represent be geoffrey reggio actually a hopi indian at all . or do he just do a sweatlodge in hollywood hill . oh and and be the various snippet bit of footage from early episode in the trilogy a commentary on the way these movie and too and be part of the global medium slushy .