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Winged Migration
Mar. 1st, 2004 09:38 pmWe joined Netflix a little while ago, which is pretty cool. So far, we've rented Cowboy Bebop 1 and 2, which were both good. This is why we now have Cowboy Bebop 3 and 4 waiting to be watched. We also rented Yellow Submarine, which was about what I expected, another anime (Legend of the Black Dragons?) which we didn't like, and Winged Migration.
Winged Migration has great cinematography. Some of the shots I can't figure out how they got them. My beef with it is it falls into the catgory of nature documentary that I always used to watch when I was growing up. I've watched enough Mutual of Omaha and the like to know about the circle of life, animals die and become food for other animals, etc. But that doesn't mean I want actually to *watch* migrating birds get stuck in oil slicks or stalked and consumed by a bunch of crabs, or even young birds being killed and eaten by other birds. There was one incident at the beginning where a bird got caught in a net that was under the water, and a boy cut the net so the bird could get free. But that was the only time (I think) that a bird was actually rescued during the movie. I know there's a whole code of not interfering, but to me, if it's a manmade obstacle that's killing the bird, then a man should be able to get the bird out.
And that still doesn't make me want to watch birds die of natual causes either.
Winged Migration has great cinematography. Some of the shots I can't figure out how they got them. My beef with it is it falls into the catgory of nature documentary that I always used to watch when I was growing up. I've watched enough Mutual of Omaha and the like to know about the circle of life, animals die and become food for other animals, etc. But that doesn't mean I want actually to *watch* migrating birds get stuck in oil slicks or stalked and consumed by a bunch of crabs, or even young birds being killed and eaten by other birds. There was one incident at the beginning where a bird got caught in a net that was under the water, and a boy cut the net so the bird could get free. But that was the only time (I think) that a bird was actually rescued during the movie. I know there's a whole code of not interfering, but to me, if it's a manmade obstacle that's killing the bird, then a man should be able to get the bird out.
And that still doesn't make me want to watch birds die of natual causes either.