The Sign of Doom (2022)

A train speeds through the country on its way to Berlin, then gradually slows down as it pulls into the station. It is very early in the morning, about 5:00 AM, and the great city is mostly quiet. But before long there are some signs of activity, and a few early risers are to be seen on the streets. Soon the new day is well underway. It's just a typical day in Berlin, but a day full of life and energy.

Darman, his daughter Ida, and Slamet the servant, go into the woods to hunt. Ida was lost when Darman and Slamet are chasing a tiger. Ida ends up in Tarsan's hut. They become close though at first, Tarsan has problems speaking the Indonesian language. Then he agrees to go to the city and learn how to be an urbanite. It is not easy as he is even harassed by Ida’s friends who do not like him.

세계 최고의 석학들과 떠나는 인류문명 오디세이. 자원고갈과 경제위기라는 위기에 처한 인류는 과연 또 다른 돌파구를 찾을 수 있을까? 그 동안 인류 역사에서 진보라고 규정했던 일들은 때로 역효과를 낳았다. 영화는 세계적으로 유명한 학자들과 활동가들, 금융전문가와 과학자들의 인터뷰를 통해 인류가 진보라는 이름으로 자행한 문명 파괴를 고발하며, 이를 극복하기 위한 노력 역시 함께 비춰준다. 로널드 라이트의 베스트셀러 『진보의 함정』을 원작으로 문명과 진보의 역사를 탐구하는 흥미롭고 지적인 여행. 미국영화의 거장 마틴 스콜세지가 제작에 참여하였다. (2012년 제9회 서울환경영화제)

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave.

인간은 때때로 직접 체험하거나 자신의 눈으로 확인해야만 진실이라 믿는다. 저명한 내셔널지오그래픽 환경 사진작가 제임스 베일록도 기후변화나 자연 학술연구에 대해 회의적인 태도를 가졌었다. 하지만 우연히 참여하게 된 라는 프로젝트를 통해 부정할 수 없는 진실을 자신의 눈으로 직접 목격하게 되고, 지구의 위기를 사람들에게 알리기로 결심한다. 는 저속 촬영 카메라를 사용해 몇 년에 걸쳐 급격한 변화를 겪고 있는 전세계 빙하의 모습을 기록하고 있다. 베일록은 젊은 모험가들과 험난한 북극을 누비며, 인류가 마주한 최대 위기를 자신의 모든 것을 걸고 증명하려 애쓴다. 이 작품은 이 지구에 미약한 희망이나마 전달하고자 하는 한 용감한 사진작가의 이야기이다. (2014년 제1회 목포해양영화제)

It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.

삼사라는 산스크리트어로 생과 사의 순환, 즉 인생의 수레바퀴이자 윤회 그 자체를 의미한다. 인간은 자연의 경의로움에 신성을 느끼게 되고, 태양과 달, 나무와 돌 등을 종교적 대상으로 삼게 된다. 그러나 일부는 이에 만족하지 않고 스스로 인공적인 구조물들을 만들게 된다. 스스로를 모방하여 신을 만들고, 인간보다 더 인간같은 인간을 만들고 싶어한다. 인간은 과연 무엇을 위해 실존하고 무엇을 위해 행동하는 것일까. 선과 악이 뒤섞여 있는 인간. 그 끝은 정성들여 만다라를 만들지만, 그 만다라를 아주 쉽게 없애버리는 것처럼 허망하거나 의미없는 행위일 것이다.

Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks of skyscrapers extrude columns of smoke and steam. In plain view. Or framed, as through a balustrade. A crane promotes the city's upward progress, as an ironworker balances on a high beam. A locomotive in a railway yard prepares to depart, while an arriving ocean liner jostles with attentive tugboats. Fading sunlight is reflected in the waters of the harbor. The imagery is interspersed with quotations from Walt Whitman, who is left unnamed.

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