Some will have reservations regarding this movie both in terms of the narration and the scope of what it tries to explain, even though most people who actively choose to see this will already now most of the information presented...
Still the visuals is THE redeeming factor here and it makes it the best successor to Koyaanisqatsi (1982) since then. And yes i HAVE seen a lot of the other recent environmental and nature documentaries and I also liked Al Gore's "truth" :-) .
Consider several shots where you cannot immediately figure out what on "earth" you are watching other than some beautiful colors that might as well be an impressionist painting and then the camera slowly zooms out to reveal for instance the plastic covered fields in Almeria or rice fields on a mountain or suddenly some humans appear floating into the frame in the distance and the camera rises to show them in a boat on a canal... It is just stunningly breathtaking and it is like that ALL THE TIME in the entire movie! For people who knows Bertrand's still photographs this is not surprising, but seeing it in moving form and presented as a narrative does actually increase the impact considerably.
So yes this is a definite 10 in my book, purely because of these visuals - As for the politics, I however don't see a way out of this mess unless we get some serious decrease in the worlds population and soon..., which is a point that this movie really does not want to address. Highly recommended, but do yourself a favor and watch it in HD 720p or more.
Still the visuals is THE redeeming factor here and it makes it the best successor to Koyaanisqatsi (1982) since then. And yes i HAVE seen a lot of the other recent environmental and nature documentaries and I also liked Al Gore's "truth" :-) .
Consider several shots where you cannot immediately figure out what on "earth" you are watching other than some beautiful colors that might as well be an impressionist painting and then the camera slowly zooms out to reveal for instance the plastic covered fields in Almeria or rice fields on a mountain or suddenly some humans appear floating into the frame in the distance and the camera rises to show them in a boat on a canal... It is just stunningly breathtaking and it is like that ALL THE TIME in the entire movie! For people who knows Bertrand's still photographs this is not surprising, but seeing it in moving form and presented as a narrative does actually increase the impact considerably.
So yes this is a definite 10 in my book, purely because of these visuals - As for the politics, I however don't see a way out of this mess unless we get some serious decrease in the worlds population and soon..., which is a point that this movie really does not want to address. Highly recommended, but do yourself a favor and watch it in HD 720p or more.