Director Ron Fricke views history as cyclical. He sees mirror images in gemenschaft and gesellschaft societies. He also believes, just as Cohen did, that "the more things change, the more they stay the same" (Cohen 1). This cylical process is evident through the juxtapositions seen in the movie, Baraka. One of the key aspects of our society that is a mirror image of the past is war and violence. Fricke depicts a retired Air Force bomber, followed by a tour of auschwitz, a concentration camp during the Holocaust, replaced by images of the Cambodian Genecide, then bodies and bones, next the terracotta warriors, and lastly government buildings. This illustrates the notion that war and violence have existed throughout history and will continue
