The Ocean of Porteborough a beautiful brutal and magnificent call

A disturbing chain takes place in the water. Then comes the chaos. A baratte mud cloud bursts while a net plowing the seabed, the heartbreaking rays, the fish and a calmar of their house in a violent whirlwind of destruction. This is the trawling of the industrial bottom. It’s not CGI. And, like the AP Reports, it’s legal. Ocean with David attentBorough is a brutal reminder of the little that we see and of the quantity in play. The film is both a radical celebration of marine life and an austere presentation of the forces pushing the ocean towards collapse. The British naturalist and broadcaster, now 99 years old, anchors the film with a deeply personal reflection: “After having lived for almost a hundred years on this planet, I now understand that the most important place of the land is not on earth, but at sea.”

The film retraces the life of Attentborough – an unprecedented era of ocean discovery – through the lush beauty of coral reefs, Varech forests and vagabonds on the high seas. But it is not the film of PuperBorough with which we grew up. As the environment takes place, the tone of its narration also has. Ocean is more urgent, flawless. Images never previously seen with mass coral whitening, fishing and industrial -scale tickets on an industrial scale reveal how vulnerable the sea has become. The power of the film lies not only in what it shows, but in the way such destruction is rarely observed. “No one has ever filmed trawling at the bottom,” said Colin Butfield co -director. “And yet, it happens practically everywhere. … Most people imagine fishing while small boats coming out of a local port. They do not imagine factories in sea scratching the seabed.”

Always, Ocean is not praise. His final act offers a moving overview of what the recovery can look like: the forests of Varech bouncing themselves under protection, large marine reserves teeming with life and the largest colony in the albatros world prosperous in the national monument of Papahanaukuakeaa Marine of Hawaii. They are not fantasies; These are evidence of what the ocean can become again, if it gives the opportunity. The film arrives in the middle of a growing global push to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 – a goal approved by more than 190 countries. Today, only 2.7% of the ocean is protected. As always, attent Board is a voice of moral clarity. “It could be the moment of change,” he said.

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