How long has it been since your eyes, simply, deeply shaken just because of their beauty?
So the documentary that Ah Xin wants to introduce today will certainly not disappoint you.
It is the 2022 opening masterpiece "Green Planet" jointly produced by the Natural History Department of BBC Studios and CCTV9 and B Station.
The entire documentary was produced and polished for 4 years, and the filming footprint was spread in 27 countries.
As soon as it was broadcast, it scored a high score of 9.8 on Douban with an unprecedented 0 bad reviews, and 9.9 on Station B.
And the commentator is David Attenborough, a 96-year-old British national treasure and the "father of world natural history documentaries".
From 1954 to 2022, after 68 years in the industry, he has always insisted on speaking for the earth, always maintaining the renewal rate of 2 works per year, creating the longest continuous change record in the history of human cinema.
Just for the classic works with more than 9 points, Grandpa has filmed 33 films.
Every year, his new films always cause phenomenal sensations around the world.
Among them, the 9.8-point work, which is also known as a phenomenon-level "god work", "Blue Planet 2", was once given to China by the United Kingdom as a national gift; and "Earth Pulse Season 2" became the highest-rated film and television work ever produced by Douban with a nearly perfect 9.9:
Among the "documentaries", the top four highest rated films are all works by David Attenborough.
In January this year, the old man returned as promised.
Through the first-class real-time and time-lapse photography, ultra-wide-angle ring shooting, thermal imaging photography, magnification frame overlay, ultra-high-speed photography and high-micro mirror technology, plus perfect hosting + copywriting, we have revolutionized the "first documentary focusing on plants through immersive presentation" in the history of human cinema.
A letter friendship tip: conditional small partners, be sure to open the 4KHDR true color + Dolby Atmos mode, after watching you can feel, what is called the "realistic version of the Wizard of Oz", what can be called "beautiful every frame can be screensaver".
In the words of netizens, this is "the NO.1 of this year's immersive movie", "the beauty is frequently surprised, the jaw is going to fall off", this is really the green earth with the brightest colors and the clearest picture quality that human beings can shoot at present!
1, palace fighting, revenge, fraud, symbiosis... There are so many plays in the plant world!
"Green Planet" has a total of 6 episodes, from the beginning to the end, it can really be said that every minute is high-energy.
At the beginning of the film, the camera begins with the stem vein of a leaf.
Then the picture slowly rotates and pulls away, the sun rises from the horizon, and the leaves become the shape of the earth - a green planet, born.
You think that's it?
The first episode alone, "Rainforest World", is enough to make you completely open your eyes and throw your body to the ground.
In the plant world, the open and dark struggles that could not be observed by the naked eye, under the lens of high-speed cameras, became like lions and antelopes on the African savannah, full of dramatic tension, and even David Attenborough cried out:
Here, is the battlefield!
Sunshine is the most precious resource in the rainforest. In order to survive, plants often do whatever it takes to survive like animals.
In costa Rica's rainforest, when an old tree dies and falls, a battle for sunshine has just begun for a large area of new life under the tree.
Shoots of various plants burst out of the soil, and they are struggling to grow, trying to occupy the canopy first.
All seedlings have their own survival strategies, such as the turtle-backed bamboo plant, which tries its best to stretch out its cracked leaves and absorb as much sunlight as possible.
Of course, the plants that are obscured under it will not sit still.
Thin vines, trying to wave tendrils, want to climb the "strong" to borrow power, and finally lock the target, riding on the "hitchhiker" of turtle back bamboo, growing lightly, growing rapidly ten meters in a year, but becoming a temporary victor.
Of course, in the rainforest where so many species coexist, how can there be only one or two masters to compete.
As the battle raged on this side, a young balsa tree waited for an opportunity to move.
Balsa wood's weapon is its huge leaves, and a single leaf can make the plants below lose their light.
In this case, the vine still does not give up, and it continues to use its flexible tentacles in an attempt to intercept balsagi.
However, the vine did not expect that there was a mystery hidden in the large leaves of the balsa wood.
The surface of its leaves is covered with silky fluff, and no matter how much the vine is hooked with its tentacles, it will not help.
In this way, Balsagi continued to strive to grow upwards, and finally won the battle without smoke.
In order to survive, the plants even raise "animal slaves" for them to drive, which is also the most subversive traditional understanding of the intergenerational and reciprocal relationship between plants and animals in the film.
In the rainforest, a fungus grows in the nests of leafcutter ants and "tells" leafcutters what kind of "leaf feast" they want to eat by releasing chemical signals.
The worker ants who received the order swarmed out, stretched for miles, cut the leaves with their powerful jaws, and then tirelessly carried them back to the nest to supply the fungus.
In the documentary, they found a mahogany tree that met the requirements of the genus White Ring Mushroom.
In return, the fungus grows tiny mushrooms to feed leafcutter ants.
What about mahogany, is it just sitting still?
Of course not, when it was killed by the leaf-cutting ant, it decided to take revenge, using its only remaining leaves to take revenge.
Mahogany will produce a toxin in the leaf that can poison its unseen enemy, the insatiable underground "owner".
Before long, the genus became weak, and finally, it sent a chemical signal for leaf-cutting ants to pick a different leaf.
Mahogany's long-range poisoning strategy worked, it saved its remaining leaves and resumed growth.
In addition to survival, another mission of plants is reproduction.
To this end, plants have evolved in ways that are beyond our imagination.
Seeds of the dipterocarp family
In the congolese forest, there is a glowing tree, and the light on the trunk does not actually come from the tree itself, but from the enzymes produced by the fungi that attach to it.
This phenomenon is known as the "chimpanzee fire" (chimpanzee fire).
When the fungus matures, it will grow solid spores, and by relying on weak air flow, hundreds of millions of spores can be released into the air...
These spore armies, taking advantage of the tall trunks, allow themselves to drift higher and farther into the forest in search of the next "target" they use to attach...
Everything in the rainforest, in addition to the beauty, is there a hint of danger of undercurrents? In the comments of the audience, this is exactly a drama film, "like the planet in Avatar"...
However, after telling the wonderful story, The old man at Attenborough turned sharply and said:
Today, 70% of tropical rainforest plants grow no more than 2 km from roads or think of opening up clearings.
As a result, a new battlefield has been created in the tropical world, and an army of exotic plants made up of the same cultivated crops now occupies a place where thousands of plant species competed to grow.
Humans have grown large quantities of cash crops to provide themselves with food and various commodities, and the area of primary forests is getting smaller and smaller, and they are divided from each other.
2, the beautiful scenery that has been photographed is nothing more than a kind of complacency fantasy
For more than 90 years, Attenborough has witnessed the changes in the earth's natural environment.
In Attenborough's biographical book David Attenborough: Life on Our Planet, published last year, David Attenborough said, "My life is full of legendary experiences... Traveled to almost every corner of the planet. ”
Just take the 1979 documentary "The Evolution of Life" as an example, in order to make this long-dreamed documentary, he traveled the world throughout the late 1970s.
In total, he traveled to 39 countries, photographed 650 species, and traveled about 2.5 million kilometers.
David Attenborough proudly says how fortunate he was to have this experience in that era. In Attenborough's description, the previous world was very different from the present:
He can fly for hours at a time, and all he can see is the pristine beauty that amazes him.
He saw all the colors that the television could not convey: "Wherever I go, there are wildernesses, glittering shores, vast plains and dense forests..."
David Attenborough once said:
In my opinion, the natural world is the greatest source of surging passion, the greatest source of visual beauty, and the greatest source of intellectual interest.
Therefore, under the conditions permitted by technology, he will always strive to maximize the beauty of each frame:
Islands, grasslands, and rainforests in David Attenborough: A Life Journey on Earth
Looking around now, the footprints of human beings have spread all over the world, and the blind harm inflicted on the earth has finally led to changes in the most important foundations of the biological world.
Human overfishing pushes 30% of fingerlings to the brink of extinction:
Half of the earth's fertile soil is now agricultural, and 70% of the planet's birds are poultry, with broilers making up the majority:
Humans make up a third of all mammals, another 60 percent are human-kept carnivorous, while other animals, from rats to whales, make up only 4 percent.
Once a species becomes a target for humans, there will never be a hiding place for them on Earth.
Since I made documentaries in the 1950s, the number of wild animals has been cut in half.
Looking at these images now, I find that although I was young, I could still experience nature in the wilderness without human interference.
Today, it seems that this is just an illusion of complacency. Since then, the forests, the plains and the oceans have been emptying or disappearing.
That's my testimony. This is the process of earth degradation that I have experienced in my life.
3. A testimony handed over to earth with the strength of a lifetime
In more than a hundred documentaries in the past, David Attenborough has always shown us joy and hope while showing all kinds of novel and beautiful pictures.
But in the 2020 documentary David Attenborough: A Journey of Life on Earth, Attenborough appears disappointed and lonely in front of the camera for the first time.
For the first time in his life, the then 94-year-old grandfather was plunged into endless grief in front of the camera.
Attenborough gave scientists the prediction that a new generation born in 2020 will see the following:
In the 2030s, the Amazon rainforest degraded into dry savannas after massive logging, and the global water cycle changed.
In the 2040s, permafrost across the Arctic melted, releasing methane, a greenhouse gas several times more powerful than carbon dioxide, rapidly increasing the rate of global climate change.
In the 2050s, the sea was getting warmer and more acidic, coral reefs around the world were dying, and fish stocks were drastically reduced.
In the 2080s, the global food supply was in crisis, with overculted soils impoverished, pollinators extinct, and increasingly unpredictable weather.
In the 2100s, global temperatures increased by 4°C, much of the planet's land was uninhabitable, and tens of millions of people were displaced. The sixth mass extinction is officially staged, and it is a road of no return that will bring about irreversible change.
Returning to the theme of the "Green Planet", in the 1950s, three-quarters of Borneo's land was rainforest, and by the end of the 20th century, Borneo's rainforest area had been reduced by half.
There is a double temptation to cut down rainforests, where people reap the benefits of timber and then grow oil palms on the emptied land to make another profit.
At first glance, the neatly arranged palm groves are lush with greenery, but inside, it destroys the rainforest's rich diversity and makes it almost impossible to feed any plant or animal.
This palm garden has long been a dead ecological environment.
Once upon a time, this was the Garden of Eden for the orangutans:
And "since I first saw orangutans 60 years ago, logging operations in Borneo have reduced the number of orangutans by two-thirds," Attenborough recalls.
Now, they can only struggle on the remaining treetops:
In 2009, IMF President Girard asked in an interview with David Attenborough:
At the end of David Attenborough: A Journey of Life on Earth, Attenborough responds:
I've had so much luck in my life that I've been able to get a glimpse of the world's real problems, and if I choose to deliberately cover up the truth, I'm sure I'll be ashamed.
At the end of David Attenborough: A Journey of Life on Earth, the camera returns to a Ukrainian city abandoned by a nuclear disaster in the last century, and Attenborough reminds:
No matter what serious mistakes human beings have made toward the earth, the earth can always restore its colorful "wildness" in its own way.
Without humans, the once rare animals have begun to gradually occupy this deserted city, and only we humans cannot afford the consequences of this destruction.
As Edward Wilson, the founder of the "biodiversity" theory, said, natural biodiversity is the basis of human survival, and once biodiversity is destroyed, a lot of knowledge will cease to exist before we can discover it.
In short, we will meet the future like blind people.