Genesis

The world is an infinity complex weave of life, death, starts and ends. It is to hard to attempt to categorize anything we see, the mesh is much to large for us to comprehend, but this film tries and does very well in explaining the universe. The story is told by an African storyteller named Sotigui Kouyate, and he adds a real grounding of the movie. Instead of a bunch of scientists talking about the big bang, and biologists talking about evolution you get him speaking about the origin of origins and how animals see grass greener on the other side, referring to when fish climbed out of the ocean.

He explains very clearly the world we see and understand, but doesn't over simplify anything. He states it as truth, and no scientist or religious person can really refute. He simply speaks about the way things are, and doesn't make any assumptions. He talks about the beginning and life, about love and death in ways that everyone agrees with, and if you don't then you must be delusional.

The photography of it is breath taking, his examples and the reenactments he does with smoke and water is stunning. As he explains we see some amazing footage of crashing waves, molten rock spewing from the earth, two parrots loving one another, a snake devouring an egg whole. All of which directly correspond to what he is explaining at the time, its not random. Its easy to get swept up in what he talks about, and like I said the images are captivating. I wish they had let him speak and not dubbed over him, I wanted to hear his real voice, and I can read so the subtitles shouldn't be a problem.

From aerial shots of streams and rivers converging to microscopic images of our own blood vessels it shows the sameness of the earth and us. A fiddler crab fighting off other males to get with the female is not far from the way we view love and sex. It saddens me that this wasn't more well known, it should be, if Disney can make a movie called "Earth" and gloss over the viciousness of life then this film as well should have its moment to show its point of view on the world.

Seeing the animals they show in ways you don't normally see them makes you think about what we as human beings have done in commercializing life for financial gain. Showing a chick still in its shell, growing, with its heart beating, next to images of a baby in the womb pushes home the idea that all life is sacred not just our own. As the storyteller puts it we are all one in the same, we are all in the tribe of life.

I loved every minute of this and would strongly recommend it to everyone, even if you don't learn anything new from it, its a fresh change of pace to look at the world as a beautiful place, instead of what we see it as usually. 8/10 stars.