Comments about ‘Baraka’

Baraka takes the viewer on a journey to visit
different peoples and places around our planet. In some of
these places it may seem that we have indeed visited
another world because of the distinct differences between
our culture in the USA and the different cultures that
abound elsewhere.
Ron Fricke, the photographer and director of
Baraka, does an excellent job skating the borders of
abstract without throwing his message in your face but
allowing it to sink subtley into your conscious with an
amazing blend of photography and music.
We get to look through the eyes of the world in
Baraka and see the faces of wize snow monkeys, innocent
children, reckless civilizations, and hellish horrors
inflicted on humans by fellow humans in nazi concentration
camps.
All these shapes and sizes, stone columns, mud
huts, metal, plastic, and glass structures. All constructs
of the human mind; and what dreams have we built? Baraka
uses timelapse photography, and music to show us our own
choices as one sunset moves into sunrise night becomes day,
and the moon eclipses the sun, what we choose becomes our
reality as a world.