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2009 "A stunning visual portrayal of Earth"
8.5| 1h35m| NR| en
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In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.

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Also starring Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
implaxible The "4" rating is solely for the stunning cinematography (meaning, the points added). The points taken off are for the deceptive nature of its presentation on the disc.Sure, I'm all for saving the planet and absolutely support the need to handle global climate change. But this "message" movie is not the way to present it. Combining beautiful footage of spectacular, mundane, and even unpleasant scenes with a wave of statistics in the narration makes for a disjointed experience at best.If it had been presented as what it was (or even described as such on the cover) I would not have had as much of a problem with it.My recommendation: turn the sound off and put on some relaxing music for the first 90 minutes or so. All the info is presented as text in the last several minutes anyway, so save that for another time.
ipman128 I was expecting an 'inconvienient truth' style shocker here but from the outset the photography of the project really came through. This suddenly made sense once I realised that it had been directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. His book 'The Earth from above' had the same feel and the super slow motion of 'Home' made you feel like the books had suddenly come to life. A real visual treat throughout the documentary and then the hard facts about humanity's impact on the bio-diversity of our planet over a short period of time hit home very well. I was so glad at the end when some solutions came to light about the work people are doing to sustain energy sources and use the land better. I believe a start would be to halt the development of desert areas such as Dubai and begin weaning Americans off Las Vegas in order to save the water table. Again another big point was the amount of water it takes to produce meat. I'm going to look at local option and attempt to eat vegitables where ever possible. A great watch for a Sunday afternoon though.
afa86 0:51:15 "One forest does not replace another forest." 1:06:30 "But there is no industry here, Greenland's ice sheet suffers from greenhouse gases emitted elsewhere on earth. Our ecosystem doesn't have borders. Wherever we are, our actions have repercussions on the whole Earth. Our atmosphere is an indivisible whole- it is an asset we share."1:13:10 "We are in the process of compromising the climatic balance, that has allowed us to develop for over 12.000 years... The system that controls our climate has been severely disrupted- the elements on which it relies have been disrupted... Humanity has no more than 10 years to reverse the trend, and avoid crossing into this (unknown) territory."
Motherspot YBA , makes wonderful and bestrangening photographs of our Earth.. these framed images give you a sense of awe. However.. filmed and moving above these images don't work at all.and especially when they are overdone with all kinds of digital techniques to emphasize their abstractness.the constant camera move over these landscapes becomes extremely boring.Accompanied by an awful uninspiring and unsurprising new-age-like-music score , digitally compressed , mastered and whatsoever..the whole form of the film is veeeery predictable.the montage of the film is sooo un-inspiring it sometimes made me 'puke '...how can it be that creativity works in one field , but absolutely fails in another? Well i guess creativity needs skills to work.That creative skill was not here when this film was made. the constant flow of helicopter images bored the hell out of me... the digitally pumped-up landscape images did nothing to me. I don't have to say much about the message embedded in this ' Film '... totally in accordance with the climate-change lobby crusade , where it probably will be engaged with laud applause.... How many tons of oil did Yann Bertrand Arthus and his crew spoil on capturing these images while filming at different locations all over the world flying hundreds of ours in airplanes , helicopters and hot air balloons capturing landscapes in order to bring they'r message of a spill-sick humanity across?This film is exactly what it pretended to set out against.a massive (maybe even toxic ) waste !