first time I watched the documentary was on a holiday afternoon. I wanted to turn off the TV to sleep, but I was attracted by it, so I just stood in front of the TV and watched it all afternoon. Nature has a beautiful appearance and contains the most real beauty, not to mention that people are nurtured between the heavens and the earth, and respond to things, it is not difficult to explain why I have no character, no dialogue or even no A documentary with a full storyline is so captivating.
This documentary tries its best to record the historical formation and ecological status of the earth's nature. It covers everything like an encyclopedia, from the ice to the equator, from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the sea, from the blazing desert to the rich jungle, and it refuses to let go of almost any corner of the earth; Look at the past and present, count the changes, and try to tell us how the earth has become what it is today. It is so detailed, it seems that it wants to collect everything in the world. When there is a day when the sea will be withered and the rocks will be rotten, and the land will be deserted, we can at least have such a "portrait" to cherish. But it is not just a beautiful and empty picture, it captures people's eyes, tugs people's heartstrings, and inspires people to think. I remember that the purpose of "Man and Nature" is to "sing up life and pay attention to the environment". This documentary must also have The ingenuity of calling on people to cherish and protect the earth is deep in it.
Every time I watch this film, I can't help but get excited. Every time I close my eyes, the unparalleled images in the film are still in front of my eyes, lingering: the galloping glaciers run through the endless arctic ice sheet, tens of thousands of caribou cross the tundra together, and the sharks that compete with the waves strike with lightning Preying on seals at the same speed, angry volcanoes spewing flaming magma, lion-tailed baboons climbing on the cliffs of thousands of feet... Facing the sheer size, strength, vitality and beauty of nature, I couldn't help but be amazed.
On the other hand, its narration of some small plots also swept my mind.
Although the animals, vegetation, climate, etc. in this film cannot speak, we can still feel their emotions and spirits and be moved by them. Emperor penguin fathers are still standing even under extremely cold conditions, letting the wind and snow blow their faces for days and months. Love and devotion are in no way inferior to human beings. In the seemingly barren desert land of the African plains, there are immortal souls buried. The seeds of flowers that have been waiting for thirty years will break out of the ground with just one night of rain. They are undoubtedly the most precious flowers in the world, and they have the most stoic will and never give up the dignity of life. However, this film shows not only the lovely and moving side of nature, it needs to be objective, so it does not hide the cruel laws in nature: mutual predation and competition. Wolves hunt reindeer, cougars hunt alpacas, sharks eat seals, African leopards chase elephants...
But this cruel competition is not at all abrupt. For example, arctic foxes stole the eggs of northern geese, maybe at first we There will be some negative emotions towards the arctic fox, but as soon as the camera turns, the arctic fox returns to the nest with a hard-earned bird egg in its mouth, and there are three cubs waiting for it to feed, and we immediately understand," "Natural selection" is not a cruel law, it is a natural law and order. It is this nature that has both rules and warmth that is most real and beautiful.
Nature is beautiful, but if there is no excellent expression technique, no matter how beautiful the scene is, the audience in front of the screen will not be able to deeply appreciate it.
The use of lenses and scenes in this film can be said to be freely retractable. Panorama and long-range shots taken at high altitudes are essential to express grand scenes, such as majestic mountains and broad plains, but also to express the demeanor and action of animals. Close-ups can make the audience see more carefully, such as the panic of zebras and buffaloes when crocodiles attack their prey. For changes that are too long, you need to use super-long shots, such as the germination, flowering, and results of seeds. Rapid moments require high-speed photography to capture, such as the jumping up of the flat stone lizard when it is preying... It is these orderly changing shots and scenes that make the whole picture more vivid and colorful.
The picture is full and the sound is not monotonous. After all, the object is nature, and the sound of nature may be a set of beautiful movements, but to make the sound rich and serve the picture, narration and music are needed. The music renders the emotions to be expressed by the whole picture, sometimes magnificent and sometimes lively, sometimes tense and sometimes soothing, while the narration almost supports the clues and connection of the whole film, as well as the interpretation of the picture. Sometimes we may not understand what is going on in the camera, what is the relationship between things, the narration makes it clear and clear, and the change of language sometimes affects our emotions like music. In addition, some information that cannot be displayed in the screen or is too late to be displayed is also transmitted by the narration, such as memories of ancient times, the listing of some data and the addition of some common sense. In short, these can be regarded as the reason why this film is so exciting, no less than the reason why it is no less than a drama, action film, and science fiction film.
I am very grateful to the production team of this film. In order to show such a work to the world, they climbed to the top of Genting and descended into the sea of deep abyss, challenged all kinds of dangerous situations, and overcome all kinds of harsh weather. . However, all of this is worth it. It's still the same sentence. People are the heart of the world. If people don't use such wisdom to reflect on the world and embrace the world with such a mind, it would be a kind of regret and shame.
Thank you for having such a film to record this moment forever.
"Planet Earth, gentle and blue.
With all my heart, I love you."
- Michael Jackson
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