Can nature documentaries tell stories?

Cleve 2022-01-17 08:03:47

We are always used to saying that although documentaries are truthful, they must also tell stories. "Story-telling" has almost become the mantra of all documentary practitioners, but in most people’s concepts, stories take place between people and things, and are exclusive to humanistic documentaries. Are natural documentaries? Can storytelling be achieved? Of course, this documentary "Africa" ​​is a good example of a story-telling nature documentary.

When we abandon prejudices, lower our body, and observe all living things with a straight-up or even upward-looking posture, we will find that plants have breathing and can even realize their own migration; animals have emotions, birth, old age, sickness and death, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, and they experience the same. write. The cruel and variable natural environment is their stage. Every day, the scene of the survival of the fittest and the weak is being staged. Everything in the natural world follows the laws of the earth's movement to cleverly find a safe place for oneself.

The rhinos gathering in the moonlight, the giraffes fighting to fight for territory and resources, the frogs trying their best to court, the long migratory roads of the elephants... these are all stories. When they were presented one by one, I only felt amazed and amazed-the world of all things in nature is so rich and agile, who said they have no stories? Their stories are happening every minute and every second. Just put aside their arrogance and meet frankly to get a glimpse of this wonderful world.

Five stars strongly recommend "Africa", this work is definitely a classic among similar documentaries.

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  • Zachariah 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Hats off to the BBC! !

  • Amelia 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    BBCཡི་དངོས་བཤུས་གློག་བརྙན་ནི་ཁྱད་དུ་འཕགས་པ་ི་པ་ི་པ་ཞིཔ་