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I can recommend watching the entire film run backwards. The music sounds approximately the same, and it turns it into a feel-good story showing assembly lines p

I can recommend watching the entire film run backwards. The music sounds approximately the same, and it turns it into a feel-good story showing assembly lines pulling cars apart, pollution being sucked into factories and mining vehicles burying ores. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-K-arVl-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-K-arVl-U

Gatsky 3y ago
Just came to say that this is a wonderful comment, and that people voluntarily playing with/remixing your creation is one sign of great art.
cduzz 3y ago
I've tried a couple times to coerce my kids into watching Koyaanisqatsi (one of them really likes watching "the way things go" so it isn't an absurd reach). I keep landing on that video rather than the "proper" one and it's disconcerting.
oogali 3y ago
I didn't realize that was the source video for this other video I periodically watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8ENJK0hvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8ENJK0hvM). TIL.
second_brekkie 3y ago
So I read the article having never heard of this before and then looked it up on YouTube. Having not watched it the right way round. It does kind of change the narrative. It kind of felt like society was disassembling itself, regressing which is sad in itself, but it was for a good reason? Also as an aside it was the clearest look I've seen into what everyday like was like in the 80s having not been alive at the time in a way that hasn't been glossed over like the media we consume.
sambapa 3y ago
That reminds me of one of the most poignant fragments in Slaughterhouse V
idiocrat 3y ago
Interesting. One of the few movies you can fully watch in both directions. The music character makes the distinct atmosphere. I just made a small peek and I could find new some visual details, which I was glossing over on the forward version. (e.g. explosions in the windows of the demolished buildings)

Gatsky 3y ago

Just came to say that this is a wonderful comment, and that people voluntarily playing with/remixing your creation is one sign of great art.

cduzz 3y ago

I've tried a couple times to coerce my kids into watching Koyaanisqatsi (one of them really likes watching "the way things go" so it isn't an absurd reach). I keep landing on that video rather than the "proper" one and it's disconcerting.

oogali 3y ago

I didn't realize that was the source video for this other video I periodically watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8ENJK0hvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8ENJK0hvM). TIL.

second_brekkie 3y ago

So I read the article having never heard of this before and then looked it up on YouTube. Having not watched it the right way round. It does kind of change the narrative. It kind of felt like society was disassembling itself, regressing which is sad in itself, but it was for a good reason? Also as an aside it was the clearest look I've seen into what everyday like was like in the 80s having not been alive at the time in a way that hasn't been glossed over like the media we consume.

sambapa 3y ago

That reminds me of one of the most poignant fragments in Slaughterhouse V

idiocrat 3y ago

Interesting. One of the few movies you can fully watch in both directions. The music character makes the distinct atmosphere. I just made a small peek and I could find new some visual details, which I was glossing over on the forward version. (e.g. explosions in the windows of the demolished buildings)