"Rain is not just because it falls on an unjust world"

Marcelle 2022-12-16 11:54:14

It took 17 years of filming. The pictures are so beautiful and delicate. The onomatopoeia and soundtrack are excellent. It shows a small world that I can't see. Personally, I think it is better than Jacques Behan's other two documentaries "Migrating Birds". "Ocean" is even more shocking.

There, "an hour is a day, a day is a season, and a season is a life." "For them, the smallest stone can become a mountain, and the smallest puddle is as vast as the ocean."

When I watched it, I couldn’t help but marvel at the abundance of their activities. Ants are always so industrious. Spiders build restaurants underwater. Snails hug each other. ” and “Rollover,” life is about eating, loving, multiplying, and conflict.

When it rained, the barrage said: God, how many bugs should die in this rain. Seeing the insects trembling in the rainstorm, I thought of a sentence in "Camel Xiangzi", "Actually, the rain is not fair, because it falls in an unjust world." Song Yu said in "Feng Fu", "This The wind and ears of the only great king, the common people live in peace!" Wind and rain always have different appearances for the poor and the rich, so why not for these little beings.

The branch that is too small for us has become a big hindrance to the dung beetle, and the pheasant is such a terrible giant in the eyes of the ants. The natural world is never fair, the law of the jungle has always been cruel, the biological chain itself is an injustice, the insects can only wait to die when they fly to the carnivorous grass, and there are so many fierce fights, which makes people feel sincere about such a life. Fear, someone posted a barrage saying: Fortunately, I am human.

But these bugs still live so earnestly and so diligently. After the heavy rain, everything is fresh, snails draw water, and dragonflies fly.

After reading it, I can't help but have a deeper understanding of my own life and the life of all things. A big thank you to the production team for such an excellent work.

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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.