Baraka

 Baraka, directed by Ron Fricke, is a film with no dialogue and really no plot and more of just a collection of photographed scenes. These scenes are beautiful and take place all over the world. The film really emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there" as far as location. It takes us all over the world with 152 locations in 24 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Nepal, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States.

Though is has no real plot, it does emphasis an environmental theme. It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint and whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining again with emphasis on the environment. Then images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn.

I, personally, really enjoyed the film because the scenes where breathe taking and it showed me parts of the world I've never seen. This film was unlike any film I've ever seen before not just because of it's lack of dialogue but also because of the different places and cultures it covered. When I first heard that the film had no dialogue I thought it was going to be boring and hard to follow but that wasn't the case and I was pleasantly ssurprised.