The documentary is shot in time lapse mode. A camera sits on a stationary frame or a very slow constant moving frame and the camera clicks in a definite interval of time. The final frames are rolled at 25frames/sec and you can see the clouds running, sun/moon revolving, and earth rotating. The platform is already set to take you on a fantasy ride.
It starts with the clips of ancient natural and manmade sculptures. The soundtrack fits in the groves and gets you in the flow. Strange rocks and flying clouds over The Death Valley, USA & Masada, Israel. The sun and the shadows traveling so naturally without anything actually moving, that you are amazed in the very 1st 5mins of the documentary.
No dialogues no human characters. Like a dream vacation we thought of our entire life in just 45 minutes.
A monolith of rock somewhere like a kilometer high and a kilometer in circumference, The Indian's Chair in Monument Valley, and later, Ship Rock, New Mexico. The army of clouds running on top of the landscape and to your surprise there are caves in this place.
At such an unknown place which humanity never would have touched, u see houses built in the crack within the mountains at an immaculate height. You wonder if that is a human house and it is. People live at this amazing place. They choose to live there. "White House Ruin" - Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona.
A New York Street clip showing the traffic like blood in the veins of the city. It was a contrast.
Back into the civilization of Egypt. Well about Egypt, I wonder why was such an immaculate amount of energy spent on building a brick monument in the middle of the desert. It was a social suicide of the entire civilization. The king died and the ministers decided to wrap up what all they had. They planned to go back to a very small population again. May be they thought it out or maybe it was just sheer insanity. Egyptians are no more with us so definitely it was a social suicide. A huge amount of population exploited by the kings army to build a pyramid of stones (note: several tons a single piece) in the middle of nowhere and many died. The left over where the best left. “Survival of the fittest”. 'Walk like an Egyptian' is a parody on a civilization which initiated the art of hard copying the reality on sculptures. 'How art made the world' might give you some hint how.
This far into the movie, if u really are watching and are mesmerized, you can clearly see a motive for making this documentary.
Entertainment business runs like a rabbit but it dies off in not more than hundred years. All that remains are the history books, monuments, sculptures and manmade real wonders. And very recently documentaries I suppose.
Out of the natural wonders the documentary straight enters into Christianity and monuments, sculptures still shinning at the world’s most prestigious cathedrals in the world. Pompeii to start.
I would like to bring an example here, Taj Mahal. There is controversy in the west of it being a Shiva Temple. Anyhow Taj Mahal as we know stands out to be a lover’s dream, a king built a monument for his dead beloved wife, a monument of stone marble. And we are so proud of it, right?
Well if you are then dig this, a king once said that he'll build a castle on water. Mont Saint-Michel, France. The castle was built during the low tides when the water used to drain away and the place became a fresh piece of land. The final outcome now? Just type the name on Google image search and get mesmerized 1st hand. Monuments and even more of it. I kind of felt sad for I have never been to any of them, and probably I would never be able to visit all of them. None of them lies in our land.
It’s sad that we are not the best, worse is that we think that we are, worst is realizing that we are not. They want us to know it and it’s really sad if you get this message straight.
I live in Bangalore. I would have bangalored an American for sure and I feel a sadistic pleasure for it at this point of time atleast. I work in a confined cubical for 9 to 12 hours a day. I come out of it to see a big beautiful campus of human hypocrisy. This makes u feel that u r in a desired place and then u walk 100 meters away from it and u know that u live in a shit place and a shit life. Luckily I'd been to Leh, Kashmir. I'd seen an extra ordinary life of humanity surviving and happier then the techno world I and my mates brag to live in.
A place beautiful and untouched, not in this life u can find anymore. Every such place discovered is soon a tourist spot and a hovering place for lot of stupid people who spent their life in insanity and could never get time to find solitude and the appreciation to the solitary beauty. Now we r supposed to accompany such a majority to a solitary place were u should have been alone. Ironic and sad again.
Out of the ancient world the story comes into the steel age. Eiffel Tower, Paris. The European era of the human civilization. The opera halls and the suited crowd. Elegance is the theme it seems like.
Turning point... The scene switches to a scene in some Middle Eastern market. Here the time lapse capture brings up an amazing fact. A dingy market and people running all over the place. You see a guy standing on his shop waiting for a customer to step in. The camera must have rolled for hours to capture that time lapse video and u could see the shop keeper standing at the same spot all the way through the clip. More strange was an old guy with red sweater standing in the gallery and doing nothing. Even he stood there all through the clip. He must be the dad of the shop keeper, retired but not over the habit of standing for hours in the market.
The camera now accelerates and the scenes of Western urban and metros push in at an increased time lapse speed and now the scenes are played in the reverse order. From new era to the old to the ancient through Egypt and back to nature.
Through the nature and then straight into a castle. Time lapse this time slow. A gigantic lamp hanging over head, changing its position by moving clock-wise and back over the course of the day. Then a War gun and then a space shuttle launch pad. The frames must have been thought of and kept there in this order for a reason. Subliminally they are transferring there message. If u can see it closely you can understand the motives better.
Now we are in the streets of New York and looking at the tall buildings in the night. The lights on the building are showing off a 2D array of lights sending some binary message, like a torrent download status. They keep on mesmerizing you with the beauty of the city in the night and very well done. Everything shown is so organized that if you don’t belong to it you'd feel the complex.
And these Americans never forget to show the works theirs Europeans uncles.
It starts with the clips of ancient natural and manmade sculptures. The soundtrack fits in the groves and gets you in the flow. Strange rocks and flying clouds over The Death Valley, USA & Masada, Israel. The sun and the shadows traveling so naturally without anything actually moving, that you are amazed in the very 1st 5mins of the documentary.
No dialogues no human characters. Like a dream vacation we thought of our entire life in just 45 minutes.
A monolith of rock somewhere like a kilometer high and a kilometer in circumference, The Indian's Chair in Monument Valley, and later, Ship Rock, New Mexico. The army of clouds running on top of the landscape and to your surprise there are caves in this place.
At such an unknown place which humanity never would have touched, u see houses built in the crack within the mountains at an immaculate height. You wonder if that is a human house and it is. People live at this amazing place. They choose to live there. "White House Ruin" - Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona.
A New York Street clip showing the traffic like blood in the veins of the city. It was a contrast.
Back into the civilization of Egypt. Well about Egypt, I wonder why was such an immaculate amount of energy spent on building a brick monument in the middle of the desert. It was a social suicide of the entire civilization. The king died and the ministers decided to wrap up what all they had. They planned to go back to a very small population again. May be they thought it out or maybe it was just sheer insanity. Egyptians are no more with us so definitely it was a social suicide. A huge amount of population exploited by the kings army to build a pyramid of stones (note: several tons a single piece) in the middle of nowhere and many died. The left over where the best left. “Survival of the fittest”. 'Walk like an Egyptian' is a parody on a civilization which initiated the art of hard copying the reality on sculptures. 'How art made the world' might give you some hint how.
This far into the movie, if u really are watching and are mesmerized, you can clearly see a motive for making this documentary.
Entertainment business runs like a rabbit but it dies off in not more than hundred years. All that remains are the history books, monuments, sculptures and manmade real wonders. And very recently documentaries I suppose.
Out of the natural wonders the documentary straight enters into Christianity and monuments, sculptures still shinning at the world’s most prestigious cathedrals in the world. Pompeii to start.
I would like to bring an example here, Taj Mahal. There is controversy in the west of it being a Shiva Temple. Anyhow Taj Mahal as we know stands out to be a lover’s dream, a king built a monument for his dead beloved wife, a monument of stone marble. And we are so proud of it, right?
Well if you are then dig this, a king once said that he'll build a castle on water. Mont Saint-Michel, France. The castle was built during the low tides when the water used to drain away and the place became a fresh piece of land. The final outcome now? Just type the name on Google image search and get mesmerized 1st hand. Monuments and even more of it. I kind of felt sad for I have never been to any of them, and probably I would never be able to visit all of them. None of them lies in our land.
It’s sad that we are not the best, worse is that we think that we are, worst is realizing that we are not. They want us to know it and it’s really sad if you get this message straight.
I live in Bangalore. I would have bangalored an American for sure and I feel a sadistic pleasure for it at this point of time atleast. I work in a confined cubical for 9 to 12 hours a day. I come out of it to see a big beautiful campus of human hypocrisy. This makes u feel that u r in a desired place and then u walk 100 meters away from it and u know that u live in a shit place and a shit life. Luckily I'd been to Leh, Kashmir. I'd seen an extra ordinary life of humanity surviving and happier then the techno world I and my mates brag to live in.
A place beautiful and untouched, not in this life u can find anymore. Every such place discovered is soon a tourist spot and a hovering place for lot of stupid people who spent their life in insanity and could never get time to find solitude and the appreciation to the solitary beauty. Now we r supposed to accompany such a majority to a solitary place were u should have been alone. Ironic and sad again.
Out of the ancient world the story comes into the steel age. Eiffel Tower, Paris. The European era of the human civilization. The opera halls and the suited crowd. Elegance is the theme it seems like.
Turning point... The scene switches to a scene in some Middle Eastern market. Here the time lapse capture brings up an amazing fact. A dingy market and people running all over the place. You see a guy standing on his shop waiting for a customer to step in. The camera must have rolled for hours to capture that time lapse video and u could see the shop keeper standing at the same spot all the way through the clip. More strange was an old guy with red sweater standing in the gallery and doing nothing. Even he stood there all through the clip. He must be the dad of the shop keeper, retired but not over the habit of standing for hours in the market.
The camera now accelerates and the scenes of Western urban and metros push in at an increased time lapse speed and now the scenes are played in the reverse order. From new era to the old to the ancient through Egypt and back to nature.
Through the nature and then straight into a castle. Time lapse this time slow. A gigantic lamp hanging over head, changing its position by moving clock-wise and back over the course of the day. Then a War gun and then a space shuttle launch pad. The frames must have been thought of and kept there in this order for a reason. Subliminally they are transferring there message. If u can see it closely you can understand the motives better.
Now we are in the streets of New York and looking at the tall buildings in the night. The lights on the building are showing off a 2D array of lights sending some binary message, like a torrent download status. They keep on mesmerizing you with the beauty of the city in the night and very well done. Everything shown is so organized that if you don’t belong to it you'd feel the complex.
And these Americans never forget to show the works theirs Europeans uncles.
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