Naqoyqatsi [DVD] | ![Naqoyqatsi [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GY31E62JL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Godfrey Reggio
Actors: Jeff Maksym, The Beatles, Nikita Khrushchev, Thomas A. Edison, Ronald Reagan
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 3286
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017188815420
ASIN: B0006VYED2
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: February 28, 2005
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 Enjoy the world while you still have it. January 20, 2010
BRUZAO (Portugal)
Do you like shocking stuff? Do you like emotional images and up to the bone music? If you love the world where you live in, you will praise the qatsi trilogy. Enjoy the world while you still have it.
 Disappointing October 15, 2008
pobz (Plymouth, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Given that Koya & Powa have lived for so so long and are beautiful masterpieces, Naqoy just isn't really up to the imagery we are used to. There's very little, if any, uniqueness to this; nothing much more I could do myself, unlike the first two films.
I think Philip Glass really needs to start evolving his music. He's barely written anything new for 20 years. C'mon Phil...! The arpeggiators are wearing thin. Look back to the Mid/Late 80's and remind yourself what you were doing then.
 Powerful but not easy... September 6, 2008
StrayDog (London United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think film suffers the existance of the two easier-to-watch predecessors.
I think the music in this one is wonderful, the images are not as beautiful as the natural ones of Koia but equally strong - almost hypnotic at times. The logical thread is difficult to follow and it either needs repeted viewings or some external help. I couldn't get it.
What in my opinion spoiled it a bit are the recurrent similiarities with the previous movies (the approach is the same: music+imagery, the music is often veeeeery similar to Koia, some scenes of autos lights are a copy from Koia, etc...) which keep tempting an uncaptured viewer into thinking that this third release was merely a money-making exercise trying to capitalise on past successes.
I too like other reviewers was looking at the timer waiting for the end, but now I have it in the background as I am writing, and it's not bad at all...
My tokenworth for those who haven't watched any of the Qatsi? Watch them in reverse order... 1) Naqoy, 2) Powaq, 3) Koia. It would be great to get your comments.
 Very poor August 22, 2008
Deimos (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first two films in the sequence (Koy ... and Pow ...) are excellent - probably at the top of my favourite film list. This one is at the top of the biggest disappointments list. It could have been so much yet became so little. The initial two films have grave points to make bt manage to make then through stunning and dramatic works. This one fails in everything it looks to achieve. Through watching the entire film all I could do was keep looking at the "time remaining" display on the DVD hoping it your finish soon. Whilst I will not lend my Koy... and Pow... to anybody (too good to risk not getting them back) I will happily give this one away - which is a real shame.
A fitting finale August 14, 2008
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The film, a masterpiece of film-making wider in scope than any other, manages to tie up the narrative themes of both its preceding parts (the political, the personal, the technological and environmental) and present a clear and damning portrayal of our current way of life. A world of excess, where ambition and profit has far outsripped any other consideration. With a fifteen year gap between Powaqatsi and its final part, Nagoyqatsi, much has changed. The primitive (and now dated) editing techniques from Powaqatsi, have been superceded by revolutionary and groundbreaking visuals that have dated significantly since the films completion. The narrative structure is now even less linear. The viewer, trained by the conceptual leaps and links of the previous two films, is now encouraged to take even greater leaps of faith.
Nagoyqatsi deconstructs everything : the virtual world is shown to be as real as the artificial, and self-imposed, constructs of society. Images of endless computer banks meld into endless rows of skyscrapers... footage of nature is seamlessly morphed into traffic, into people, into rows of numbers, rain, and a truly terrifying montage of nuclear explosions. Rain becomes a series of endlessly rotating Zeroes and Ones, frame graphics of houses, diagrams of nuclear explosions, and ghostly abandoned buildings. Every form of violence - both real and imagined - from the virtual world of Doom to the LA Riots.
The rule of Nagoyqatsi is not only that of "Life as war" but that mankind itself is at war with everything else. "A way of life that consumes others in order to survive". Mankind cannibalises anything and everything in its unthinking quest to reproduce like a virus. Symbols meld into each other, the dollar, the yen, the Pizza Hut logo, all transform into Swastikas, cogs, wheels, and all these things become clear. Far more than its predecessors, Nagoyqatsi is explicit in it's imagery : in our quest for all things to be faster, quicker, better, more, we will soon be extending beyond ourselves. We will consume beyond ourselves, devour ourselves, extinct ourselves.
At the films conclusion we see just how fragile we are. The world shrinks to nothing. Stars surround us, and the earth becomes just another light twinkling in the envelope of space. A beautiful as the view from a spaceship overlooking the earth, as chilling as seeing a crisscross pattern of lines from the same spaceship, vapour trails from ICBM's, the soft, small spots of lights on the earths surface that used to be cities and could now be explosions. Nagoyqatsi is our warning. This world is fragile. Our life hangs in the balance. We will destroy ourselves should we not want to save ourselves.
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