Friday, May 23, 2008

Movie-Arctic Tale

This movie about global warming is beautifully, sometimes amazingly, filmed. But Arctic Tale is really a film for kids, and as such anthropormorphises quite too much for my taste.

Still is is a good film for what it is trying to do, explain what global warming does to animals that live in the arctic. Focusing on a walrus and polar bear cub, the film follows their lives in a north that is changing rapidly.

The movie teaches a sad lesson, but it fails in one respect, it does not connect what happens to these animals to what will happen to us, and that I think is a big key to get even young people to care about the problem.

Still, it is entertaining and as I said, wonderfully filmed.

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