Home [Blu-ray] Overview
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Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 06/05/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
Home [Blu-ray] Specifications
"Former actor Yann Arthus-Bertrand directed this visually astonishing portrait of the Earth as seen from mesmerizing aerial views. Home is not the first documentary to survey our planet from the air, but Arthus-Bertrand brilliantly and dreamily captures the miraculous linkage within delicate eco-systems. For viewers whose eyes glaze over at descriptions of the way Earth recycles energy and matter, Home underscores the beautiful and awesome reality of that complex process. Narrated by actress Glenn Close (in this English-language version), Home begins by exploring and clarifying the natural history of water, sunlight, and the role simple life-forms such as algae played (and still play) in making the planet hospitable to more evolved, living things. As the film moves along, it also has a way of rebooting one's lazy assumptions about familiar phenomena. The Grand Canyon, for example, might be a fantastic sight to behold, but it's also a collection of billions and billions of shells compressed under Earth's oceans long ago. The carbon trapped in the Grand Canyon was drained from the atmosphere, helping--once again--oxygen-dependent life to develop.
Similarly, plant life, Home tells us, broke up the water molecule and released oxygen into the atmosphere. Everything is linked, everything is part of a grand machine--the film makes this clear in scores of ways, and not just by telling us. Arthus-Bertrand reveals the intricate, breathtaking designs and patterns of glaciers feeding rivers, of animals feeding on plant life so more plant life can grow, of Australia's great Coral Reef's role in keeping the ocean in eco-balance. Of course, a big part of the story is the impact short-sighted humans have on these systems: the way we overfish, or drain deserts of scarce fossil water, or turn non-farming lands into perverse engines for agriculture. There is much to be alarmed at watching Home, but there is much to move one as well. --Tom Keogh "
Customer Reviews
Beautiful aerial photography in the service offers a hell of a chilling message. You can not with the visual evidence of the terrible circumstances in which we find ourselves these days to discuss. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls ..." kind of thing. So relieved, but gives the film deals with the solutions. I would have liked more movies in this undertaking (ie moved "to see the salvation / redemption '), but yet something had gone more hope than I expected. I also happened to noticethe discrepancy between the "city first appeared 600 years ago," fragment, but figured some other qualifier was the comments left? Another thing that threw me was the late Glenn "I" statements. He was talking to the director? Or Glenn was personally involved in making this documentary? It is not clear. In any case, not ready to throw the baby with the bathwater. " Understand every man, woman and child should be required to watch this movie on EarthNeed for a "Land of the citizens" and that the films are financed by the "2% of the population with the material wealth of the planet ... What do you think?
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