Mer dare

Hearing Oxygene in movie soundtracks is guaranteed to break the spell for my part. The perils of overuse.

At its best it does succeed in invoking the Antigone chorus's idea that man is the uncanniest of beings, but overall there is something about it that for this viewer fails to convince. Seems notable that it was made at the same time as or just after KOYAANISQATSI: it uses some of the same footage and seems to share with that film the idea that rockets or aircraft falling back to Earth after failing is an evocative way to present the pathos and hubris of man's technological striving.

Space. Military-parades. More space... more military-parades... and so it goes. Surely I could find depth in this, as much as I can find depth in Duchamp's "The Fountain" (a piece of "modern art"...), but at first glance there's not much to see here. Then again, it wasn't all that bad either. I watched it to the end, and found at least some enjoyment in it. But I wouldn't recommend it, and I certainly wont rewatch it. It's a big "meh" from me.