Beautiful French "bugs"

Precious 2022-12-10 09:50:56



At the very beginning of the film, the film is full of admiration: insects, spiders, centipedes, etc. Usually people have a "stereotype": dirty, inferior, instinctive/mechanical/unconscious, weird, ugly, annoying and even scary. However, the "story" of the film is told in the early morning, showing a group of "bugs" who wash their "faces" and clean their bodies. The audience can easily think of the habitual behavior of human beings after getting up, and the distance between us and them is shortened. . Immediately after, the ants milking (aphids secretion), the ants driving away the troublesome ladybugs, the two red ladybugs communicating for a moment and starting to copulate on the green leaves, and the beautiful and elegant sound when the two snails meet and make out. The soprano, who easily introduces the audience into this wonderful world, swept away those stereotypes.

Maybe this is a nature documentary made by the French (of course, it is also a stereotype), it is beautiful, life, and full of emotion. Maybe this is the only way to get more audiences for documentaries about bugs.

It's still the same for me, the downside is the upside: some of the shots are quite informative, but there is no narration, and the whole film is a bit anticlimactic as a whole.

Here, by the way, I will criticize those who are prone to cleanliness: we are all people who have had acne and poop, and it is difficult to say who has less bacteria in the digestive tract than who. There's nothing wrong with a natural aversion to bugs or what's called a "crow phobia" (a "disorder" that professionals say has no basis at all), and maybe no one can change that. But to take this as a feature worthy of showing off to publicize it for pleasure or as a proof that she is pure, elegant, fresh and refined, and that Daiyu is in great need of protection, is too narcissistic and Fengjie.

The real world is like this, "bugs" also have their beauty and wisdom, joy and struggle. You can not appreciate it, but please don't forget, maybe there are many more ugly and dirty things than these "bugs" in the grass.

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Extended Reading
  • Alda 2022-06-27 16:36:13

    One flower, one world, one tree, one bodhi. In the world of insects, the smallest rock can become a mountain, and the smallest puddle can be as vast as an ocean. But even if they are small, they still live their lives seriously. The ladybug of the seven stars makes a coquettish appearance, the snails in love snuggle tightly, the dung beetle is like Sisyphus and never gets discouraged arching the dung ball, the caterpillar train marches to the end and twists in a ball, the beetle duels like a gladiator... A rain, their world will be turned upside down. But they are still alive and well. In such a wonderful world, time flows in other ways: an hour is a day; a day is a season; a season is a lifetime. Zoom out a little bit, why aren't we humans like this? In order to understand the world, we should learn to listen to their whispers quietly~

  • Jamaal 2022-06-27 16:26:44

    7.5/10. Bird eating insects is a monster movie, heavy rain is a disaster movie, the dung beetle is a funny movie, and the entangled snail is a love movie. Magnificent soundtrack, ending with a 2001 space odyssey feel.

Microcosmos quotes

  • 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.