Sunday, June 21 2009 @ 10:47 PM GMT+4 Contributed by: Tad Montgomery
If you're looking for something to do that'll both bring you breathtaking beauty and wring your brain out like a sponge, without moving from your favorite chair, check out this movie on YouTube:
Authored by: NorahCook on Wednesday, June 24 2009 @ 09:04 PM GMT+4
Thanks, Tad, the photography is astounding, every frame is a superb
painting... and, the film is not all gloom and doom, it swings back
upward at the end with some hopeful glimpses of what we can do to save
our "home"
Authored by: Tad Montgomery on Thursday, June 25 2009 @ 11:20 PM GMT+4
No, Paul, sorry. Aside from the PPR Group that is in the credits. They seem to be a PR firm that covers the likes of Gucci, Puma & Yves Saint Laurent. It looks like the whole company decided to make this film happen, but that's just a guess.
Authored by: spinoza on Thursday, June 25 2009 @ 08:27 AM GMT+4
I agree the imagery is breathtaking, and the sweep of the story- from volcanic spew, to the rise of blue green algae, to the dash towards our mass extinction and self-inflicted apocalypse is staggering- but it seems the filmmakers' late attempt at a happy ending is like giving a lollipop after hitting us with a sledgehammer.
The facts alone, as they're presented here, make it grimly clear - we ain't getting out of this one alive.
Stunningly bittersweet, or super bummer- I'm not sure which.
This work is the vein of the koyaanisqatsi triliogy, which I found to be a bit more inspirational.
Authored by: spinoza on Thursday, June 25 2009 @ 04:21 PM GMT+4
I take it back.
Any kind of recapitulation like this is good. The only way out of the mess is to gain as Wide a View as possible. Exposure to cosmological process should be mandatory.
Authored by: Merriam on Thursday, June 25 2009 @ 07:08 PM GMT+4
It appears to be one of the programs in a series that ran on National Geographic HD. (Comcast channel 770) Some of the most spectacular camera work and images that you will ever see on television.
