Bugs Carnival

Alex 2022-06-27 19:47:08

After watching this movie, I can't help but think of the symphony "Carnival of the Animals". I remember listening to it for the first time, and all the footage from "Animal World" came to my mind. And watching this movie was definitely a carnival for me.
Almost everyone loves animals when they are young. Especially the unseen insects and underwater animals, they are so different from us, their colors are so bright, and their behaviors are even more novel and strange. In the film, a group of caterpillars are advancing end to end in the desert, and they encounter another group. As a result, they form a circle and linger forever in the same place, which is quite philosophical. And two snails, in the soprano in the background, what do you think?

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  • Narrator (English version): [beginning narration] A meadow in early morning, somewhere on Earth. Hidden here is a world as vast as our own, where the weeds are like impenetrable jungles, the stones are mountains, and even the smallest pond becomes an ocean. Time passes differently here: an hour is like a day, a day is like a season, and the passing of a season is a lifetime. But to observe this world, we must fall silent now, and listen to its murmurs.

  • Narrator (English version): [ending narration] The night gives way once more. Nothing will stop what's now in motion, what hides in shadow, what searches forward, what flutters toward the light. Here, where time is measured out in moments, and new lives emerge from darkness, a day begins like any other. Beyond anything we can imagine, and yet almost beneath our notice.