The camera moves slowly from the sky, and the horizon has never been so broad: the steaming green forests, the tumbling and playful giant whales in the deep blue, the rivers with finely woven blood vessels, the huge glaciers that are cold and white, and The majestic and majestic mountains above the ten thousand ren... These shots are so beautiful that people can't help but yearn for: Is this the earth we live in? Will I still have the opportunity to visit these magical axe of nature in my lifetime?
Taking aerial photography from another perspective, it turns out that human civilization is so ignorant and greedy: peeling off the original green skin of the earth, cities began to take root and spread like cancer cells. Humans reproduce endlessly and exploit natural energy endlessly. The greenhouse gases released while modern life is comfortable makes the glaciers that can condense water in winter and release springs in summer no longer exist. Driven by economic interests, the forest was excessively cut down, so that the fertile but fragile soil on the surface of the earth was no longer protected and was lost with the rain and wind, exposing a rock that was as barren as bones and unable to breed any plants...
In the first half of the play, With flat rhyming commentary, accompanied by faster and faster drum beats, repeat a line: faster and faster...
the expansion of the city, faster and faster; the abuse of energy, faster and faster; the expansion of the population, faster and faster faster, the disparity between the rich and the poor, faster and faster; climate disorder, faster and faster; the melting of glaciers, faster and faster; the decline of human civilization, faster and faster? This documentary shows that no book or any text can describe it out of shock.
The film repeatedly emphasizes that nothing in the world is good or bad. Each other exists because of each other, and each other perishes because of each other. Balance is the way. I'm thinking that balance, or any attempt to balance it, is nothing more than another timeless truth that slows down but can never be changed: all things follow an arc of birth, old age, sickness, and death . Humans are, the earth is, the solar system is, and so is the universe.
In human development, should speed come first and short-term utility come first? Or should balance come first and long-term stability come first? Some would say, of course it should be the latter. However, just like night and day, no point of view is absolutely correct, and no point of view is absolutely wrong. Because as a human being crawling on the ground, he can never introspect from the inside out like a god, or look down from above. Individuals, groups of people, societies, and countries, for the sake of short-lived survival and fleeting development, it is impossible to sacrifice immediate benefits for long-term invisible effects. To take the line of the supremacy of balance, most of the people in society need to jump out of the mundane world and have the wisdom of a wise man and the mind of a saint. However, it takes a large number of people to reach this height, is it possible? Then a point of view that cannot be implemented at all, is it impossible to discuss its correctness?
In the second half of the film, I try to give people a little warm light of hope. In Denmark, fairy-tale windmills are erected in the sea, and rows of silicon wafers that absorb solar energy are erected in the desert. But is it useful? Can the situation be reversed?
is it possible? impossible. It's too late to be pessimistic. But it's as well not early enough to be optimistic. Too late to be pessimistic, too early to be optimistic.
It is still the same curve of life, old age, sickness and death. No one can hide, and the same is true for the earth. The development of human beings will still be like cancer cells as always. Once the rumbling train starts, it will inevitably be uncontrollable and unstoppable, the same rhythm as always. Cancer cells will also achieve and move towards their own death after invading every inch of the human body, depleting every resource of the earth, and after the death of the human body and the earth.
One of the best documentaries I've seen in years.
PS: I think, instead of wasting energy, time and energy, researching renewable resources, it is better to concentrate on exploring outer space. Before the earth is completely exhausted, find another "earth" suitable for us to exploit and survive. Then in the distant universe, look at this once blue earth and tell our descendants, "you know, son. that's where we used to live...”
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