Koyannisquatsi is an intricate ecphrasis expressing philosophical expectations for the world as we know it. It shows the beauty of nature with a slow pace, and soothing music. While industry is shown with a fast-moving pace, and an almost depriving human repartee. It is shown in a way making it seem leminil; creating an almost deus ex machina, in which nature takes the form of god. However it clearly makes its point of the ancient philosophers eschatology. .
Nature isn't all it's cracked up to be. If we decided to live like a philosopher, or like the Indians (with the theory of waste not) then everyone would be living in tents, killing only what their family needed, sharing with neighbors, in clans. Sound like Utopia, happily ever after? No, it sounds great, but happily ever after doesn't last that long, moving everybody into tents and destroying industries would obstreperous. The world would be over crowded and there are no longer enough wild animals to hunt. Necessities of life would slowly fade into darkness, hygiene would no longer exist. Without a sewage plant and workers, there would be no running water. Doesn't sound like Utopia to me. Sounds like cavemen would re-inhabitant the world. Though I am not bashing nature and saying destroy it all, I think it is important to fight for things like National parks, or the rain forest preservation, and even animal testing; but you can't live in a world with one without the other. They must learn to work together to help each other.
Industry is like a perepatea to nature. Yet it is humans hamaertea. The two scenes that caught my eye the most out of all the industries consisted of the sunbathers on the ocean, about 50 feet away from a plant, and cities filled with destruction, poverty, overcrowded subways, beaches, bombs, explosions, pain, devastation. Emotions expressed through angered music, with depressing pictures of what had at one point in time been someone's dream.
