Powqqatsi Comparison

Comparison Essay In the first scene of Powaqqatsi, there were men walking against the grain of people down the hill. In the Last Supper, Jesus is going against what everyone says and is following God, which many don’t believe in. In the movie, the men are struggling; they are dirty, and working hard to go against the other people. They are very obviously struggling as Jesus did, and simularly, they keep a strong front. They push through as he did. In his lifetime, Jesus showed that he was the son of God by curing the ill, healing the blind, and loving all of his people. He did all of this despite the fact that he was hated for doing all of those things. As the men did, he went against the majority to do what he believed was the right thing.
In addition, these two pieces of art show a transitional phase in the most extreme ways. Both the movie and the painting show something in the process of changing or moving on from one thing to another. In the Last Supper, it shows Jesus before he moves on to make the ultimate sacrifice; the mood shows it. In the Last …show more content…
In the movie cover alone, it shows a small boy, being overshadowed by a large and moving truck. Clearly, the truck could over power the small boy, but instead it follows closely behind. Similarly, in the Last Supper painting, there is a slight shadow of death that is cast over the painting. In the way the art is done, it is evident that the mood is slightly cast over by the shadow of death that is soon to come. As with the small boy and the truck, death will soon come for Jesus, but right now it simply follows closely behind. The painting is not black and death has not taken over quite yet. The cover of Powaqqatsi is a symbol for the boy soon being taken over as bigger powers come to conquer. That same can be shown in the Last Supper as Jesus is followed by death, and it will soon be the