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Joyce 2022-11-03 18:53:53

This film uses a special microscopic camera and unparalleled photography technology to capture the mystery of the insect world ingeniously. It was dawn, and in some unknown corner of the earth, there was a huge world like a planet hidden. The grass is the forest, the pebbles are the mountains, and the water droplets are the ocean. During the 20-year research preparation and filming process, the director cleverly and humorously personified the grassland insects, showing people a world magnified countless times in the forest and under the grass. The film won five awards including Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 22nd French Caesar Festival.

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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.

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