Baraka, Kelly Moody

There were so many amazing scenes in this movie, it is hard to pick one that is the strongest. I have to say though, the scene that i find reminscent in my mind on a regular basis is the scene of the graves stacked on top of each other. The scene is 1st of a city, a living area of the city, somewhere in Asia i think where the living standards are lower. The buildings were tall and stacked, the human sludge dripping down each floor creating a dead-like feel to the scene. Look what globalization is doing to people? Globalization is deadening people before their lives are over, and all the while they think that its all in the name of modernity, of prosperity and growth. From our perspective, we see it more holistically, we see the picture from a bigger scale.
I think the film maker was trying to make a statement about how the West is manipulting people, taking them from their culture(though a culture that has flaws of its own, what we are doing is on a different level all together) and convincing them that coming out and living in tall deadening cubicles will give them a better life, but it just makes them deader quicker. We are turning people in the world into "i-it"ers.

We are losing our sacred sense of the world, treating things as 'standing resource' and people as the same. Humans, especially those immediately involved in the capitalistic practices of the West (but really all of us play a small role) are treating nature and people this way, hence the many parallels in the movie with nature and people, and their similar patterns. It allows us to see ourselves as a part of a bigger whole. It invokes a sense that makes us realize that we are such a small part of something phenomenally bigger than us, yet we are so powerful in the same sense, and sometimes we fail to realize what impact we have on others.