Microcosmos Comments

  • Schuyler 2023-01-10 12:48:13

    At the moment of feathering into butterflies, two snails are affectionate, two beetles fighting, "mantises catch cicadas, oriole is behind", spider trapping process, ants, bees... Many tiny creatures deduce a big world: Competition, cooperation, intimacy, hunting, birth, death. The rain was incredibly beautiful. Every animal lives meaningfully like a human being. Great music. The tiny world is so alive, what about the big...

  • Retta 2022-12-22 02:52:39

    Invincible Invincible. In a very melancholy night, watching such an indescribable film, I couldn't help laughing in the bed. The disgusting little bugs in reality are as holy as newborns in the camera. Especially the part where the two snails meet, lingering, like glue, plus the aria of the female voice in the background. The maroon shell and the milky tentacles could have been so clean. There is also the shadow play performed by the praying mantis dancing with knives and guns alone in the...

  • Trevor 2022-12-20 17:00:26

    When I watch it, I always feel itchy all over. People with insect phobia and dense object phobia don't need to watch it. Just listen to the original...

  • Hunter 2022-12-10 05:43:52

    It's amazing, and the mosquito's appearance at the end is a grand finale, like a ceremony prepared by a pagan for the...

  • Jettie 2022-12-03 09:46:27

    I am a mediocre! ! Watching this film is disgusting for a while...but the dung beetle is really doing well. After watching that paragraph, I suddenly felt why this is called the microscopic world - maybe we are just like them, we often go round and round in the world, doing useless work, but we don't know it. Sometimes I enjoy myself, sometimes I stumble, useful or useless, maybe when disaster strikes, they all come to nothing... But it still does not stop, that is,...

  • Ernest 2022-11-13 20:35:25

    15 years of filming time is condensed into an ordinary day. Under the director's micro-lens, all life (mainly bugs) is so vibrant. It seems that looking at these little creatures from a new side through the lens is really amazing. Magic. (Of course, the documentary must be watched in HD, so that every scene can be cut...

  • Holden 2022-11-06 17:26:10

    I always feel that the next second I watch the movie, Zhao Zhongxiang's voice will come out =...

  • Christy 2022-11-05 01:41:38

    Interesting stories of insects, amazing snail lingering, dung beetles poking dung balls on branches are the best laughs in the whole...

  • Lottie 2022-06-27 21:12:21

    Introduce nature from multiple angles and get close to life. It's the first documentary I've ever watched, and it's...

  • Douglas 2022-06-27 20:36:19

    Prying into the little secrets of the world of insects, the shooting is very delicate~PS: I like the dung beetle very much~ The dung ball is very cute, but some insects are a little...

Extended Reading
  • Berneice 2022-11-18 18:06:35

    Introductory Entomology Documentary

    This documentary records the way of life of insects in the chronological order of the day. In this way, the director allows the audience to better understand the reproductive mode, external form, basic behavior mode, predation state, information exchange mode, defense mode and social behavior of...

  • Alexanne 2022-12-08 13:46:17

    Slow down and visit the inhabitants of the grass

    The French documentary "Microcosm", one of Jacques Behan's trilogy of Heaven, Earth and Man, with a high score of 9.1, was released in 1996, and it is still very shocking and moving today.

    I prefer another translation of it: the inhabitants of the grass.

    Zooming in, the grass turns into a forest, the...

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.