Really Surprised!

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This is simply incredible film making and a testament to the medium itself. Without any dialogue or apparent story and simply through visual cues and incredible editing one of the most important pieces of work since the since 2000 has been created. The film itself is a tribute to earth itself and the environment that we surround ourselves in, as well as an homage to the our culture, diversity and our triumphs. It is also though a searing indictment of consumerism, greed, the superficial nature of society and violence that is prevalent in our world. It is truly incredible cinema that won't lave me anytime soon. Thank you for making this incredible piece of work.

An amazing documentary almost as majestic as "Voyager Golden Record" covering a very large aspect of this word today. It actually takes you to the scenery. The music absorbs you in it up to a level that you don't know you were watching it on screen. You start feeling like you are dreaming it. The locations chosen are mesmerizing. And religions have been depicted so greatly with so little of the information but conveys what religion is all about very comprehensively.Now Spoiler Part: It shows a very well presented scene from Makkah Soudi Arabia. Kaaba on the screen. The largest of the religious gatherings, all steps happening in unison. And sound of most famous of Azaans(Call for prayer) so perfectly blended into the rest of the music that I almost didn't catch it the first time. But watching again I noticed azaan could have no music in background and still it would have made it a perfect scene, or perhaps a more attractive and likable one.

I tried watching this documentary when it came out. I somehow couldn't. A few days ago I came across it again and started watching it, but stopped after just a couple of minutes. I realized I needed full concentration & total attention. This wasn't just another documentary movie you watch while you do your crosswords or paint your nails. This is a real thing! If you watched Ron Fricke's famous 'Baraka' this one will remind you of it, but while the first one is more civilization-oriented, maybe even old-fashioned nowadays, in the years of the peak in robotics and genetic engineering, the second is more culturally focused and it deals with social differences and issues that many who are busy running through social media life may foresee, or don't know. This film will make you wish you didn't skip your history and geography classes. It will make you wish that you are a billionaire with freedom to spend his entire lifetime on traveling to distant places, breathing into the unbelievable scenery and unimaginable products of human brain. It will also make you feel very grateful because you have a nice home, warm and cozy bed and cooked dinner on your table. Its scenes will make you want to be terribly angry at times because the world is a cruel place, not immune to the rules that belong to animals only, as some think. It will make you feel powerless, yet trying to grasp why such opposites are necessary. It will make you question do you really need one more pair of jeans, new mobile phone or should all that you invest in be your knowledge at first and foremost. Scenes will changes quickly and each will make you want to hit pause and just think about it, discuss, investigate and you won't be alone -its music will be guiding you to a long, deep meditation but without trying to avoid bad, uncomfortable feelings or visualizing reality was different, because it is not. Beauty and essence of life are in the polarities.But, if you want instant opinions and observations that somebody chewed for you, you will soon come to understand that the true magic of this magnificent film begins once it is the end and you get a strong urge to begin talking about it with others. We are all 'Samsara' and we are all here for a reason. If this movie made you accept, no matter how hard it was, that life is like a sand that only revives when the wind starts to blow and swirl, then it means you passed your test of mindful, purposeful and conscious living on this earth.

Brilliant, but difficult to explain why. No plot, no acting (well, except for one scene, but I'll come to that). So, it's a documentary then? Yes, sort of, but there is no narration, nor captions, nor even tags to let you know what or where in the world you are looking at.In essence, it's a visual documentary on the modern world. Initially it just seems like National Geographic without any commentary: beautiful scenes of temples, nature and places you might want to go as a tourist. However, 100 minutes of random places and things could be boring after a while. Just when you start to think that might well be the case, themes start to emerge: nature, buildings, opulence vs poverty, guns/military, livestock. Pretty much everyday things, and how they are connected.It is basically a 100-minute stream-of-consciousness exercise, using amazing, totally natural visual imagery (ie no CGI). Enjoy it for where it takes your mind, or just for the images and the drama of everyday life.Only negative note is the one scene that isn't candid: a performance artist. Very pretentious and pointless and prevents this movie from being perfect.