HREQ 1730 Midterm: Powaqqatsi Life In Transformation

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1730

Document Summary

In our modern world, urbanization is the foundation that helps us build as a society to grow culturally, socially, and religiously. Powaqqatsi explores the development of urbanization through the industrial world and through primitive and ancient cultures. Powaqqatsi compares the wealthily and the poor and expresses this by comparing different lives of the industrial world and the third world. Powaqqatsi is about the journey of human existence, life, and growth and the societies contribution to urbanization. In particular, powaqqasti reflects and shows the effects of how large-scale cities take away the original culture of small-scale countries. The movie powaqqatsti introduces the culture and beliefs of the third world and examines on how the people use their beliefs and needs to shape urbanization. These people reflect their cultural wants and needs through the landscape in order to expand urbanization. The historical process of urbanization is significant and is the foundation in which built society.