At the beginning of the film, the sea is turbulent and the sea is constantly beating against the coast. Jiang Wen's masculine voice sounded. He asked, what is the sea? What is foreign? We know the ocean, but we don't understand the ocean. The ocean accounts for 71% of the earth's surface area. All we know is its vastness, but few people can truly experience and feel the space and life it contains. Ocean-themed movies may not be unfamiliar to people. Luc Besson’s "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", the ocean represents a kind of life; the same is his "Atlantis", the ocean is a pure land; James Cameron’s "The Abyss" "The ocean is full of unknowns. And this documentary is to take us away from the land, to the sea, to experience a wonderful but real world.
As director Jacques Behan said, this film does not need a director, no screenwriter, because nature is all it is. And their job is to record those wonderful moments and beautiful lights and shadows, and condense more than 500 hours of shooting material into just over two hours in the movie theater. It is undeniable that the amount of information is so huge that each scene and species only appear for only a few minutes, making the audience feel overwhelmed, but even so, the more than a hundred creatures appearing in the film are compared to the ocean. Among the hundreds of thousands of creatures, it still seems so insignificant. Pointing the angle of view to all kinds of marine life has also become the focus of the whole film, from the elegantly tumbling and jumping dolphins, to the waterfowl that draws a perfect arc into the water to fish, to the new born struggling to escape. The little turtles chased by natural enemies, one after another, constituted a living ocean world. In the film, we know that big fish do not necessarily eat small fish. In a world where the weak and the strong eat them, they have to learn to depend on each other; we know that the seemingly huge creatures may only be interested in the water plants on the bottom of the sea. We also know that when When tuna shoals with a radius of several kilometers are displayed in front of my eyes, that kind of picture cannot be replaced by any gorgeous and advanced special effects, because they are all real. The magical creator creates creatures of different colors and shapes, and allows them to bred and grow in the deep and rich ocean.
If most of the time of the film is to show the audience the beauty of the ocean, then in the second half of the film, the director's brush strokes took us to the dirty sea full of garbage, and saw the bloody fishing by the fishing boat, and the nurturing of nature. Creatures of tens of thousands of years have been tragically extinct because of humans in just a few decades. The director's virtual museum of extinction animals made the audience shudder and grieve for the destruction of the ocean by humans. Immediately afterwards, the director unscrupulously moved the camera to a ship swaying violently in a storm. The mania and anger of the ocean are self-evident. The ocean needs people to be in awe. If people take resources from the ocean endlessly and recklessly, the ocean will eventually bring the heaviest revenge to mankind.
At the end of the film, it is still the quiet territory and the leisurely school of fish. The film returns to the original tone, once again leaving the audience with the most beautiful memories of this unknown world. Unlike "Dolphin Bay", which describes the gloom and cruel killings of human beings, this is a film that makes people love to love. The seemingly fragmentary fragments and scenes make viewers fall in love with this place in the bottom of their hearts. Because of love, we should cherish this vast ocean even more.
In a short period of time, I was deeply impressed by the personal charm of the director Jacques Behan. After the film was over, the director was exhausted and answered every question seriously. Everyone present felt the true feelings revealed by the director when he talked about the movie. There is one detail. I was very shy and tried to stretch out my hand to shake hands with him, but what I got was a quick and powerful response from this seventy-year-old man. With that power, I saw that he was for someone who also loves movies. The friendliness and closeness he has shown sincerely wish him better and more works in the future.
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