It's almost the weekend, bringing you a very, very new popular science documentary that is suitable for weekend viewing. How new is it? Just launched in October 2020, only more than 1,000 viewers have commented on Douban.
▲ But it does not affect it to score a high score of 9.5 on the harshly rated Douban
The first two days ago, I just watched the first time with Chihiro, and I was amazed! Can't wait to write an article for everyone Amway! I dare to pack tickets, the style and perspective of this popular science blockbuster are unique so far:
Cute enough! Focus on cute and loving miniature animals;
Enough cattle! Lens language, commentary, soundtrack, all hollywood-level configuration;
Dangerous enough! Document the daily routines of small animals struggling to survive;
Beautiful enough! The value is comparable to or even surpasses the BBC nature science documentary.
With these few settings, the child is absolutely captured in the first second, and even as an adult, you can sit next to the TV with the child and watch it with relish.
A picture book of the little heroes of nature
A Small World
Suitable age: 3 years old and above, not capped
Theme: Small biological science
Episode length: 30 minutes (6 episodes)
"Little World" is a documentary that explores the tenacious vitality of various small creatures, recreating the stories behind these little-known little heroes.
As a nature documentary, under the breathtaking photography technology of the producer Apple, there is a strong and exquisite sense of self-confidence and fairy tales; the small animals are lucky to escape from death again and again, and the ending is quite good. From an adult point of view, nature is cruel, is this a bit distorted?
But I think this is precisely the reason why "Little World" is suitable for children to watch. It is also the positive energy that this documentary wants to pass on to children through small animals:
As long as you have a tenacious belief, you can live well
You know, animal-themed documentaries, if it is made by HBO and the BBC, may be indispensable to bloody and fighting scenes
, you have to filter it yourself and then show it to the baby, and this one, everyone can rest assured that it will be used as a standard Hollywood animal blockbuster to show to children!
Yes, the narration of this film is voiced by the Marvel hero "Ant-Man" Oh, hahaha, what a clever, it seems that there is no more suitable candidate than him!
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[Small] see the miracle of "big"
How small is the world under tiny World's lens?
As small as a drop of rain can smash them,
Small enough to hide in Lego's hole,
As small as a weed, it can also block the way,
As small as a footprint stepped on by elephants, it is their whole world,
If you are too small to pay attention, you may be knocked unconscious by a lump,
So young that almost no one notices that they live in the same land as us.
The miniature world presented in "A Little World" is beyond our imagination - the smallest monkey in the world is only the size of our palm, while the acorn ants smaller than the grains of sand are only 1 micron long, and only one acorn can hold 1,000 acorn ants...
Some of them are naturally small, and some have to evolve into a small one because of the scarcity of resources in the habitat, such as this thin blind snake, which is as thin as pasta, but only half the length of the noodles.
But in this small world, unique little miracles are always staged:
From this film, I learned the survival rules of 3 small animals:
First, work together.
To fill their stomachs, 20 pygmy badgers and a hornbill form a strange combination, the pygmy badgers drive out their prey, and the hornbills are responsible for the sentry, cooperating, and allowing this tenacious little team to survive in the most difficult environment of the African savannah.
When the elephant shrew is blocked by the elephant's huge feces, the first person to come out to help must be the dung beetle (that is, the shell lang)! Of course, the dung beetle is also selfish, and it has to enjoy this cup of soup before the opponent comes. You know, this is not only its dinner, but also the magic weapon of courtship!
Although the acacia tree has sharp protective spines, under the attack of the giraffe's 50 cm large tongue, it seems to have no effect, and can only sit and wait to be eaten... But it also has a second line of defense – acacia ants that live in tree trunks and branches!
The second survival law of small animals is not to cause trouble and not to be afraid of trouble.
For example, the pygmy badger just mentioned, its way of self-preservation, is to mark its own smell in the "territory" the size of 50 football fields, the higher the position of the smell mark, other animals will think that the "lord" of this land is higher and bigger, not easy to mess with.
Although the pygmy is the smallest carnivore in Africa, it will dare to hunt large animals if it seizes the opportunity! See if this hunt is not very kingly?
The coroned wheat chicken was guarding her baby, and they had two months to break out of their shells.
A gazelle came over, and the coronal wheat chicken was only an inch tall, but in order to protect her child, the front of the gazelle did not lose momentum.
The third law of survival of small animals, the wisdom and courage to break away.
When the mountain fire came, the needle mole knew that he could not run away, and decisively cut a pit in the ground and drilled into it... Although, the precious thorns on its body were burned, but the little needle mole survived!
In the face of the mountain fire, the little honey bag squirrel who was lying on the tree hesitated for a long time and decided to fight!
This is the honey bag shrew's first glide, and perhaps its last, but if it doesn't, it may not even have a chance to survive...
The funniest thing is that the magic dance that the peacock spider dances in order to mate, and the slightest mistake in the dance steps will be ruthlessly rejected.
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[Dangerous] Hollywood blockbuster look and feel
Each episode has a plot full of small animals, making the audience's heart jump up and down.
For example, when the jerboa is looking for food, a rattlesnake quietly approaches it from behind, and the soundtrack is also tense at this time, just at the moment when the rattlesnake violently attacks, the jumping squirrel takes off in the air and jumps out a few meters away!
Harm, there is really a sense of tension about watching "007"!
The acacia ant crawled onto the giraffe and bit it, and a symphony sounded in the background, as if the "prince saves the princess" drama was being screened
Two umbrella lizards scrambling for territory, a dynamic soundtrack, coupled with a close-up of the details of the scrappy scene, slow-motion amplification, a mini version of "Jurassic Park"!
▲ Victory Lizard Cheers!
There are also swarms of ants that take away the thin blind snake, both like "Tiger's Mouth Eater", and like the final endgame battle in "The Avengers", everyone cooperates to defeat the big devil!
In the human world, a leisurely and comfortable weeding, in the small world of squirrels, is like a "massacre"!
The most absolute thing is this - the hummingbird is foraging outside, the ants come to sneak up on the baby bird, then the hummingbird mother senses something, rushes to the home, and the picture switches repeatedly between the mother bird and the ants, as if a "life and death speed" is underway!
In addition to these thrilling, there are many "healing" pictures. For example, small animals after a fire are killed for the rest of their lives, but only a little rain is needed for the forest to be reborn:
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Cute enough lens language
Take an eye SPA
The language of the footage in this documentary is also very elaborate. High-definition, high-saturated colors, bright and abundant light, as if doing eye SPA~
When the predator approaches, we see a shadow approaching; when the critter escapes, we see slow motion;
When the goshawk attacked, we walked through the bushes from the perspective of a goshawk, and the goshawk flew by, and a few leaves were knocked down... Very poetic.
Some shots are also very meaningful.
Deep in the grassland, a group of wildebeests are threatening, and the home of the mother-crowned wheat chicken and its unborn baby are blocking the way of the wildebeest migration...
Just when I thought its eggs were about to suffer, none of the eggs of the coronal wheat chicken were broken!
But with two months to go until incubation, how many times has there been such good luck?
In the film, the camera turns, and there is no detail, and I dare not think about it.
Make your eyes as comfortable as a marshmallow, and countless cute things:
▲ These two birds are as big as bees
And the scenery that is completely blockbuster size:
It makes sense that the film crew spent 3611 days, or nearly a decade, capturing the small animals in Tiny World, with more than 3,160 hours of footage and more than 200 species of animals.
That's why we are involuntarily drawn into this small, tiny world that is difficult for ordinary people to explore, to see the unknowable, tenacious vitality of small animals, and survival skills that are either unexpected or interesting.
There is a saying in Teddjan's Breathing: "Even if the lifespan of the universe can be predicted, the diversity of life in the universe cannot be counted." "Yes, existence itself is a miracle.
This live, flesh-and-blood, sometimes thrilling and sometimes quiet "Little World", I highly recommend it to all children and big friends over the age of 3.