Japan, mountains, snow-monkeys in hot springs
This is an image from the film Baraka
Where or what is this image?
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| Japan, mountains, snow-monkeys in hot springs | Joanna | Poland | 498 votes | Login to vote |
| Meditation...that is what we need sometimes...and this picture teach us a moment to learn. | Ana Cura | Argentina - Mexico | 336 votes | Login to vote |
| Okay, this monkey is NOT our ancestor! Now I am not at all religious, in fact I am highly evolutionary. Anybody who ever took a course in evolution would know that this monkey and I have a COMMON ANCESTOR. He is not our ancestor. Just thought I'd clear that up. | Evo-Devo | Montana, USA | 335 votes | Login to vote |
| understands the world more than any human. | Michael | Ramsbottom , England | 328 votes | Login to vote |
| I saw a sentient being languishing in the warmth of the water. This small wise looking face appeared relaxed and without worries for the future. | Shelley | Canada | 326 votes | Login to vote |
| cold monkey with a red face | bec | australia | 320 votes | Login to vote |
| GENESIS. | Zach. | CYPRUS E.U | 318 votes | Login to vote |
| Sorrow | Maja | Croatia | 303 votes | Login to vote |
| meditation | dj allaine | scg | 302 votes | Login to vote |
| Portrayed human characteristics. Look through their eyes into their souls. | Janet | Wisconsin, USA | 302 votes | Login to vote |
| the dawn of man, the first thoughts born into the world by our ancestors. The beginning of the journey of man. | mike james | england | 297 votes | Login to vote |
| He is in Samahdi, he is one with creation...an ecstacy. Just being in the infinite moment. | Amal | lebanon | 297 votes | Login to vote |
| Our ancestor thinking and getting relaxed | carlucos | spain | 296 votes | Login to vote |
| You could spend a lifetime wondering what he/she is thinking. This photo is hypnotizing. | misshart | canada | 294 votes | Login to vote |
| A snow-monkey. There was an evil one on the Powerpuff Girls | Josephine | NZ | 293 votes | Login to vote |
| This is a snow monkey; he is showing a million emotions that can be interpreted into whatever you want to think his current mood is at the moment you view it. Every time you watch Baraka you will see something new. For now I see decisive thinking, calmness and melancholy being expressed in his face. | Rebekhah | Michigan, US | 292 votes | Login to vote |
| different reality | David Aaron | MEXICO | 288 votes | Login to vote |
| I thought the monkey was beautiful and full of emotions, not unworried though..full of concern for something, someone and you can even see it reflected in the water. | emilionnen | jerusalem | 287 votes | Login to vote |
| A monkey is cold, so it enjoy in hot springs. | Khoa Phan | Vietnam | 287 votes | Login to vote |
| Nagano Springs, Japan. Those snow monkeys are very interesting. The females monkeys are the leaders of the group. They go down from the top of mountains to the natural warm waters. And yes, this expression is deeper and sinceresly than the human one. | scalope | spain | 285 votes | Login to vote |
| This picture is and example of what life should have been for us and what it was before humans interfered with the natural order. | Andrew | Utah | 276 votes | Login to vote |
| Reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. During "the dawn of mankind" when apes learn using bones, we have the same 3 shoots : ape thinking in close-up / black monolith under the sun / ape thinking in close-up. In Baraka the monolith is replace by a solar eclipse. Perhapes for the ape it's only a memory or why he choose to stay an animal. | Jeremy LEFLAMAND | Le Havre - FRANCE | 10 votes | Login to vote |
| Deep connection with higher consciousness. Sage. Guru. Shaman on a soul level. | Lisa Shaw | Fort Lauderdale | 9 votes | Login to vote |
| This creature is contemplative here. The filmaker is using this creature based on its phisiological relation to us to get us to think of nature, in the broad sense, as a highly developed, sentient, and intellectual realm. This tactic employed by the filmaker works well in the selection of this creature (based on luck and a creative eye) being that we can relate its subtle facial movements to those of our own being that it resembles a human, but it is also not so removed from human phisiology, i.e.: a creature less relatable to humans. The creature is realized as what it should be veiwed as and what it truely is: vastly complex. | Alex Martin | United States | 9 votes | Login to vote |
| The monkeys of Honshu are the most northerly species of monkey on the planet. This is only possible because of the annual summer monsoons, which in turn are caused by the extraordinary pull of air from the Bay of Bengal onto the hot Indian subcontinent, which is then deflected off the Himalayas upwards towards Japan, where it reaches from early June until mid-July every year. As such, the monkeys symbolize the complex interrelation of climates, snow-cover, habitats and cultures across vast swaths of the globe. I think the monkey is waiting for spring | Michael | Tokyo | 2 votes | Login to vote |
| Baraka is the snow monkey's dream. Watch the timing. Perhaps it's the monkey's nightmare too. Either way, the narrative is so subtle that most people miss it. Looks like you all have! ;-) | Fred | Kendal | 2 votes | Login to vote |
| The monkey is very peaceful and appears to be meditating. He looks like he is calling out to a power higher than him. | Lisa Paul | Miami, FL | 1 vote | Login to vote |
| This monkey shows the look of confusion and worry. These are all characteristics that represnt the world in which we live in as people. Simply Put, the monkey expresses just how confused the world relaly is. | Devin | Miami, FL | 1 vote | Login to vote |
| Monkey seems peaceful | The Sid | USA | 1 vote | Login to vote |
| i have my own ideas on his expression, ill keep that to myself. snow monkeys are very intelligent, they clean their food before they eat it(a rare behavior among animals) and young ones are known to roll snow balls to play with. just like human children. | snow monkey | japan | 1 vote | Login to vote |
| The monkey is relaxed and enjoying itself. everyone should be like this monkey | tim | New Oxford | 1 vote | Login to vote |
| great pic, instant word association:...looks like Yoko | bill getas | usa | 1 vote | Login to vote |
he just had a hard day and wants to just... he just had a hard day and wants to just relax with a bath | harold | canada | 0 votes | Login to vote |
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