Koya Anis Whatsy?: The Chaos Revealed
             Chaos, disorder, and pandemonium all reign supreme in the state of life known as Koyaanisqatsi. World and civil wars, terrorism, inner-city violence, all indicate that this condition does persist today. While certainly not all of society holds responsibility for this, many of the world's problems have their origins in man's desire to control nature. Man seeks to overcome nature's laws through the use of machines and other inventions. Unfortunately, more often than not these inventions cause deeper problems than those they were designed to fix, such as the dependence on said machines. Godfried Reggio, the director of Koyaanisqatsi, makes this same point in the film.
             Many of the images shown in the film indicate Reggio's belief that humans have a deep need for and reliance on machines. One such example shows an Air Force Pilot with his fighter jet. This scene suggests that the pilot identifies himself with the jet and that without it he does not feel himself. Thinking thusly slightly alarms me to the fact that we humans have become so attached to machines that we can no longer function without them. This leads to the conjecture that while machines have helped to advance society, they have also become a crutch and hindrance to further development. The same inventions that separate man from his cousins in the animal world have simultaneously weakened him through his addiction.
             A second powerful theme shows itself many times throughout the movie, that of mankind seemingly becoming mindless drones totally dependent on patterns and routines to feel comfortable. This theme first appears in a scene of a hotdog machine with hotdogs flying by on a conveyor belt. This scene in and of itself makes no real statement but when seen in conjunction with the following scene Reggio's meaning becomes clear. An accelerated seq
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