Samsara

Plot: There is none. The movie is a collection of visually stunning shots composed with mind-bending music. It contrasts the natural wild world with the deeply cultural remains of ancient civilisations with the overwhelming fast-paced current society. Everything is shot on 70mm film.

Aga's hot take: The whole movie is magical in its simplicity. There are no words, there is no story other than what we project of ourselves onto the pictures. What ties them all together is a haunting beauty that doesn't let you look away. You can't wait for what the next scene will bring but simultaneously you wish this one will last forever.
The word Samsara is the opposite of Nirvana -- or as we may know it: the feeling of something being unbearably buff. So what story do I overlay over the pictures? Besides showing the hypnotising beauty of nature and humanity, I think Samsara shows without telling how we as humans went wrong. It shows that nature will reclaim everything it allows us to use now. It shows that we used to live in agreement with it, creating beauty which we fit into her frame and that's the only beauty that still remains -- everything worth our notice comes from before our times. It shows that now we lead artificial lives that have little connection to those civilisations past and our lack of sensitivity comes from masking our primal behaviours and roots. There is a single scene in the whole movie that was acted. I won't go into detail as I don't think I can do it justice, you have to see it for yourself. I think that scene summarises my read of the movie -- a man hungry for his true, wild, uncaged self, not oppressed by society, technology, money, free to express himself, content with being stripped of all religion and self-respect. Samsara is a sad, unnatural state and that is the state we have put ourselves in.
Everything you see in this movie tickles your brain. It must be insane to watch this high and something great to put on with friends because you can easily talk over it -- if you manage to move yourself out of the hypnosis -- and I imagine it makes for amazing post-movie conversation-food: you get to make the story. 10/10 would recc