Baraka Maraca

The movie Baraka is pretty inspirational. I can relate it to my first semester of advanced world lit because it provokes the thought of the world being one person, one being, yet different. Each Religious ritual is unique and special in its own way, but everyone in the world is at peace when they are with their beliefs. Which is my argument to the relevance of religion, but that is a different topic. one particular scene that evoked feelings from me was that whirling dervish scene.

I think that this was really cool because of the looks on their faces, they appear to be having an out of body experience. Like they are up talking with their religious leader or whatnot while their bodies dance on the floor like wind up ballerinas. Unlike Brussat, i think the things that impacted me the most were religion and the worlds practices.

        The film begins with scenes of bathing monkeys and about thirty minutes of religious rituals and peace. Then the music really picks up and they show time lapses of asian cites and egg factories. one parallel I saw here was how the scene of the chickens ends, then they go straight into manhattan where people are packed into monotonous everyday routines that we force ourselves to do, much like we forced the chicks in the film down a shute with burned beaks. The fast pace of music causes a feeling of unrest in the world where they show more disturbing images like cities, poverty, and destruction. I think that the film is attempting to inform audiences about the massive cultural diversity in the world. And also how the world is a blessing and is not to be over tampered with