The word “Baraka” means “bless” in Hebrew and Arabic languages. And this point is crucial to understand the plot of this movie.
Baraka shows incredible images, the progress of the human species, but relativizing. The first images, the point of start of story is a monkey that takes a relax in a thermal water in the middle of a snow, he is surrounded by snow. This scene shows us how simple life can be. And then it shows how the human life, to measure that increasing distance whit the spirituality, is more and more complex and has less and less sense.
