Today, there are still many experts and scholars in the international community who are skeptical about the reality of global warming. In order to let more people know the real environmental conditions, James Balog, a photographer from the National Geographic magazine in the United States, led his EIS ( Extreme Ice Survey) team, risking their lives to observe the polar glaciers in Iceland, Greenland and other polar glaciers at close range and start a chasing journey!
They went through all kinds of hardships to accurately record the terrifying magnitude and speed of glacier melt, and used real images and data to give strong responses to skeptics.
"Journey to Ice" is a documentary filmed to follow the actions of the EIS team.
There are no fancy techniques in the overall photography, and the narrative methods are bland. What really moved me and was awe-inspiring was the dedication and fearlessness of photographer James Balog and his team.
Can you imagine? In the extreme cold, James Balog stepped into the icy water with his camera barefoot in order to capture the closest shot of the waves hitting the ice;
When he saw that a glacier observatory he had set up was destroyed and data was lost, the 50-year-old man would cry like a child who lost his beloved toy;
The team members even risked falling into the bottomless abyss, leaning over to the bottomless ice cave entrance to take pictures.…
The production team firmly believes that the most convincing is not the simulation animation drawn by the computer, not the chart curves of various trends, but the living pictures and images!
The boring and arduous work of the EIS team members brought breathtaking and beautiful images in front of us. Magnificent glaciers, crystal clear ice, icebergs larger than the entire Manhattan collapsed, rolled, and cracked...
These awe-inspiring and magnificent spectacles will never be seen by ordinary viewers in their lifetime!
The photographer faithfully recorded the mighty power of nature, reproduced the spectacle images one by one in front of the world, and told the world with pictures that are shocking and shocking to the soul, and it is the human beings who destroy these beautiful natural scenes with one hand!
The film's theme song "Before My Time" is also worth mentioning, performed by J. Ralph and Black Widow Scarlett Johansson.
Accompanied by the ethereal and soothing melody, the singers sing softly and their voices are low. I can hear the silent and eternal glaciers in the picture, telling their sad thoughts...
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