Samsara USA 2011 – 102min.

Name: Samsara
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011
Duration: 102
Rating: 3.4

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Short description

In a Buddhist temple high in the mountains of Tibet, child monks watch their older confederates make a mandala with different colored sands. The camera moves along a mountainous landscape to volcanoes, a desert, tropical forests and waterfalls, and moving clouds. Soon the focus is on humans: the absurdity of human existence is underlined with accelerated images of traffic on highways, assembly line work for electronics, food consumption (with footage of the “dismantling” of live chickens as they are wrapped in cellophane), munitions manufacturing, etc. Among a thousand and one scenes, the one that stands out is of a man freaking out behind his desk who suddenly smears himself with mud. In the end, the camera comes back to the temple, to Indonesian dancers and the mandala, which is destroyed with a simple gesture...