Revolution: Movie review
Revolution is a featured documentary movie about the changing world and the changing environment around us. Revolution movie depicts life’s evolution and presents a revolution that is required to save the environment. The director Rob Stewart starts with the jeopardy faced by sharks from fishermen, pollution and changing ocean environment. Rob presents the movie in a very sensitive way, touching all the topics that related to the environment, natural flora and fauna of jungles and oceans. The movie presents some incredible spectacles from wildlife with sharks, lemurs, pygmy seahorse and cuttlefish. Revolution covers from the coral reefs of New Guinea to Madagascar’s rainforest. Revolution presents some important information related to human survival; it is provocative, beautiful and startling. The underwater imagery of the movie and its videography is amazing. The initial twenty minutes of the movies have a slow pace, but later it picks up speed. In the movie, there are twenty-five experts from across the globe who talks about various aspects of the environment, climate change, environment protection, planetary system and the impact of human activities. The movie presents various stories on the environment and climate change that are not only intriguing but also very motivating, informative and alarming as well. The movie also presents the efforts of protestors and environmental activists that fight for protecting the environment. Overall, it is a very powerful movie and with a strong message (Stewart).
Take-home message of the movie
An important message that the movie Revolution presents is that the fate of human beings is tied to the smallest of creatures. Revolution is essential for human survival. It is one of the biggest movements in the human history that is focussed upon saving the world and environment.
Learning
I learnt that the coral cover inside the Great Barrier Reef has seen a decline of almost thirty-six percent in the last twenty-five years while it has formed over a period of millions of years.
Influence
The movie presents a story that had a great influence on me. The stories are of Canadian Lynx that over consumes the available population of rabbits in their area and then die because of hunger driving its community to near extinction. This story related to the current condition of human society. The story is a model for humanity that is undergoing the same process of overpopulation and overconsumption.
Actions on a personal level
The movie shows that how students of grade six change the fishing habits of an entire country by speaking up and contacting the officials elected for running the country. One action I would take on a personal level is implement the same messages into my life and people around me to protect the environment, develop better habits of consumption and make a different if not at the country level, but at least at my town and city level.
Relation to environmental biology class
The movie has huge relation to environmental biology that I study as it presents all aspects of the environment, natural resources, small and big organisms and impact on the environment.
I would ask my friends to watch the movie as it will not only help them in understanding a global environmental challenge but also enable them to relate to what they study in class better. The movie is kind of a must watch for all environment lovers.
Works Cited
Stewart, Rob. "Revolution". Revolution. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.
