The new IMAX film Journey of Man, featuring the Quebec-based circus troupe Cirque du Soleil, may induce dizziness that has nothing to do with the usual vertiginous side-effects of IMAX's enormous screen.

No, the film's cumulative effect is like a flashback to simpler, druggier times. The movie's mythic story -- a parable about the life of an everyman -- is a nostalgic trip to the days when Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf was on everyone's bookshelf, El Topo was on the midnight movie bill and you could buy a weekend's supply of drugs for just $5.
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As a 3-D Imax film based on a world-famous stage show, Cirque du Soleil - Journey of Man opts for a different approach to its subject matter than a similar recent giant-screen effort, Siegfried and Roy - The Magic Box.

Where The Magic Box took a stylized account of the surgically enhanced Bavarian duo's personal history and intercut it with footage of them actually performing on the Vegas stage, Journey of Man is shot entirely on location in forests, jungles, deserts and palatial estates. There's not a stage, or audience, to be seen.
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