Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe (from Koyaanisqatsi)

Godfrey's Reggio documentary original soundtrack replaced with newer one from Philip Glass 1998 re-recorded album «Koyaanisqatsi».

[pippolacoste]

Koyaanisqatsi is _the most beautiful thing_ I have ever seen in my life. It changed my life, and I knew it while I was watching it.

[ghastlyghandi]

Average for comment composition:
40% - GTA 4 references
30% - Watchmen references
29% - Talking about the actual Pruitt Igoe housing project
1% - talking about the comments

[eltrolas_]

So this is what the dream feels like, this is the victory we longed for...

- Niko Bellic (2008)

[EketteraGameTime]

Soviet connection works fine as a theme to GTA 4 but this spoke to me on a deeper level. It sounds like how i imagine Nikos mind to sound like. A storm. A war that never ends.

[SoupyGuy]

"Life is complicated, i killed people, smuggled people, sold people, but perhaps in here.. things will be different." ~ Niko Bellic

[Sultanofszing]

Koyaanisqatsi: The greatest speech-less horror film ever made.

[Braaaaaaa]

"Koyaanisqatsi" means life out of balance. This has never been more true than now.

[DrDelos]

A little back-story from Wikipedia:

Pruitt–Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. Living conditions in Pruitt–Igoe began to decline soon after its completion in 1956. By the late 1960s, the complex had become internationally infamous for its poverty, crime, and segregation. Its 33 buildings were demolished with explosives in the mid-1970s, and the project has become an icon of urban renewal and public-policy planning failure.

The complex was designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the World Trade Center towers.

[savagepanda]

Before everyone trashes on Minoru Yamasaki, please understand the Pruitt Igoe that got built heavily deviated from the Pruitt Igoe he designed. Cost-cutting measures weren’t his idea and poor management after construction was in no way his fault in the slightest.

[pixelghostclyde]

Americans: Soviet housing blocks are so depressing!
Minoru Yamasaki: hold my Pruit Igoe.

[kieransp]

Masterpiece, GTA IV really had an amazing soundtrack

[starvingpeoplecantcomplain]

Koyaanisqatsi is one of the best and most impactful movies I watched as a teen, and its cinematography is truly stunning. It spurned the crystallization of one of the central tenets of my world view, that life is a meaningless joke without any inherent value or purpose except its own sustainment.

[PepperAnson]

GTA 4 and Watchmen both have a special place in my heart

[baddabohn]

So this is what a dream feels like....this is the victory we longed for.

[invisibleman]

my father actually grew up here..he used to tell me how you could easily get robbed whenever you stepped out of the elevator, and how people would dump trash and washing machines on the police cars and ambulances. fucked up place indeed

[svr]

They hired the right man to make music for this movie.

[Cutesticles]

"I feel fear for the last time"

[pamelalockridge]

Lots of memories there, I was born and raised there, so many friends, great schools and teachers, great libraries, walking distance from downtown where my sister and I walked and shopped, that is why I am an educator today. My mom says it was so beautiful in the beginning. It was not well planned. It makes me a little sad. 

[KRAFTWERKK]

One of Philip Glass' most haunting cues. The pictures of the Bronx and the failed project Pruit Igoe could not have had a more fitting theme. Places where once lots of people lived and then being shown decaying and abandoned still always have that eerie presence as if you can feel the ghosts of what was once and now isn't. It is these moments where you feel almost touching death and suddenly becoming HYPER aware of your own mortality.

[zolarczakl]

I had the pleasure sometime around early '90 or so to see this movie in Boston Symphony Hall on a gigantic screen with the Philip Glass Ensemble playing the score live.
I had already seen the film many times on VHS tape on no more than 25" standard def. color TV. You can imagine what a spectacle it was to see it on a proper movie screen - and a giant one at that, and watch the music being performed. It was mesmerizing.