Christopher Carter - Baraka

The Baraka movie came this close to stopping me from eating Chicken. I didn't know that the little chicks came and went into the factory in such abundance. It was mind blowing also to see that many chickens handled constantly in that manner, with their beaks burnt to a crisp and thrown down a sorting chute. I know that it could always be worse, and there is much worse (veal), but it's still pretty bad actually getting to see it.

Easily my favorite part of the movie was the exorcism/war dance with the tribe. I liked the leader a lot and thought he was very charismatic and

eccentric. He seemed like the type of leader that was wise, and people would follow and depend on; just by the way he was leading everyone in that song. I liked all of the transitions that the tribe made and how they all seemed to be in unison when they were performing the ritual. They had it all memorized obviously, because it seemed long, and since it was a story, it had to have been previously practiced or they had to have some previous knowledge of how it kind of went. I also really liked the expressions on the people's faces; I think that was a really nice touch on the part of the film maker. It's an effective device that shows us the discontent of the lovers of the land.

I thought it was really weird when we saw the part with the Asian high rises and the bubble hotel rooms. I never expected that out of the movie considering everything we saw up until then was natural or tribal. I didn't think that we'd get to see all of the things that modern culture has created and destroyed. It was a very nice segue into the destruction of the modern world by having the natural disaster sequence before.