Did you catch that magnificent show yesterday?
It was the charity premiere for SEC at Shaw Lido, airing the movie Earth – the journey of a lifetime. I did, and I had travelled around the nature in the movie screen. It was indeed a journey of my lifetime that I would not be able to do it physically but visually. Here is a short review about it.
The movie started out with a very warm scene of polar bear cubs learning to slide down a steep slope upon the call of their mother. At the same time, it has shown how sacrificial the mother polar bear was to feed her last reserve of milk to the cubs despite her in starvation of 5 months without food. It was truly captivating on how, the mothers in nature - be it polar bears, elephants, deer, mandarin ducks etc care for their cubs despite heading towards danger.
The cycle of life was portrayed in the movie; the familiar food chain we see in our textbook was indeed true. But how many of us get to see the scene? How many of us truly know the fact of survivor? As we live in urban lives, many of us do not witness the instinct of survivor in the animals, the hunting and the hunted. The strongest survivors aren’t humans, but the animals out there. They have walk thousands of miles just to gain access to water points, unlike us just a few meters to our water taps. How many of us know the difficulty of feeding? We just need to head to any food-court or back home to eat. Do we realize how desperate the animals can be risking their own life just to hunt for their food, because it’s either food or death.
My heart was melted when I saw all the scenes, nature was truly beautiful. The dancing of the bird of paradise just to attract the opposite sex and the nature cleaning that they do. The lesson that the mandarin duckling learn how to fly, jumping off their nest with leaves as their cushion. The hunting of the lions and leopards and how determine they were, it wasn’t their faults to hunt and kill - it was survivor. What truly touches my heart was when the desperate polar bear had no choice but to attack the walrus – a dangerous animal. Polar bear’s instinct was created to not attack dangerous animals for food. But the desperation of hunger made it do so, witnessing the losing battle that he had, and seeing him drain out energy laying in that cold land touch my raw nerve.
I have heard stories of polar bear drowning and many more destructions that human had done. This was my 1st witnessing, seeing the ice melts and the polar bears dropping into icy cold water, starving and having to swim for hours before drowning. I ask myself, what have we been doing?
The effects of our own doing are not directly seen by us as we are at the top of the food chain. Whatever that we are doing, affects the downstream of life, but bear that in mind it will come back to us, that is the cycle of life.
Here are some opinions from the youths,
Lester Tan, President of RP conservation IG 2009/2010: " Good display of how nature adapt to the changing climate and world, and their resilience to it. Include majestic display of nature's wonderful creatures and the beauty of the environment. Simple and a straight message to audiences, easy for disgestion. Intrigue contents to captivate audience's attention."
Lim Yi Ting vice-chairman of Ci Yuan CC YEC: "The documentary revealed the fragility of our ecosystems and how susceptible various wildlife species are to this phenomenon called climate change. It’s sad to see how the animals we share the Earth have to bear the consequences of our irresponsible actions. This movie is a must-watch for anyone who respects life on Earth , or simply wants to be awed by the complexity and beauty of nature."
Lim Jing Kai, member of RP conservation IG 2009/2010: “The movie made me realize that what we do has a consequence, be it as impact to the environment or to the biodiversity. Seeing how the animals adapt to the environment in a very closed-up view over the years really shows me that this is happening in a very rapid manner. It also shows me the link that we have to also put ourselves in the shoes of the animals.”
I will end this review with a quote from Rachel Carson “Man’s attitude towards nature is today critically important simply because we now acquire a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. The challenge as mankind has never been before to prove our maturity and mastery not of nature, but ourselves”
This movie will be out in the theatres on 22 April 2010.
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