Let's Go to the Movies: March 2005 Archives

Having managed unintentionally to avoid it since its release in 1992, I finally came around to seeing Baraka this evening. Being entirely without dialogue, though bursting with visual and aural atmosphere, enjoyment of this film is probably a great deal more subjective than it is for the majority of feature length pieces. It's enough to say that I enjoyed it without going into what it "said to me" -- again, entirely subjective, and I'm not about to spring a spiritualist monologue on anyone at this hour of the morning -- and that there were certain sequences that I'd love to watch again. On a 50" plasma screen. With 120 watt bass speakers. Or failing that, at an IMAX cinema.

Better yet would be to see, in person, as much of all that there is to see in the world before I'm inevitably run over and killed by a bicycle.*

* This statement is far less random than it seems to those that know me.