SYNOPSICS
Breath of Life (2014) is a English movie. Susan Kucera has directed this movie. Robert Trivers,Sue Blackmore,William R. Catton,Wayne Vene Chun are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2014. Breath of Life (2014) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
Humans are the only species capable of imagining the future while at the same time ignoring the consequences of the future we are creating. Breath of Life reveals why we modern humans are in denial about catastrophes of our own making that could come to pass sooner than we think. Filmed in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Hawaii the film features breathtaking cinematography and insightful commentary from the world's greatest evolutionary biologists and psychologists - but it is the common sense of farmers in the drought stricken western United States and the wisdom of Hawaiians from the most isolated place on the planet that show us the way back to a more honest and authentic relationship with the world and reality.
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Breath of Life (2014) Reviews
Breath of Life is the one film about our future everyone should see.
Spectacularly photographed in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Hawaii, Breath of Life is a strikingly beautiful film about what we actually know about the near future of the world. A future not as it might ordinarily appear to the average person, pundit, politician, or even the most hard nosed climate scientist, but seen through the eyes of some of the world's leading evolutionary biologists and thinkers. And although there are quite a few PhD's in the movie, it is the straight talk of farmers in the drought stricken western United States and the wisdom of Hawaiians from the most isolated place on earth that bring the message home to where the heart is. There are huge concepts here vividly portrayed about the deep structure of the human mind that have never been so eloquently expressed on film before. Why are we modern humans in denial about catastrophes of our own making that may come to pass sooner than we think? There are plenty of films that tell us what we are doing to ourselves and our planet that may put our progeny in grave peril. Breath of Life is the only film that shows us why. It does so with such beauty, intelligence, truth and wonder, it is mesmerizing to watch.
A Must See Documentary
Wow, I just saw this movie in Bristol at the theatre. I was stunned and couldn't really move for a moment. The film confronted me with humanity's dilemma in terms of climate change. The film went far beyond the facts of climate change but delved into the issues how come we as humans can't change our behaviour in the face of the evidence that our collective behaviour is creating; a difficult environment for future generations. It felt like looking into a mirror and being confronted with a truth that you have avoided to hear for a long time. The film is stunningly filmed and all the scientists are first rate and well known in the world of science. it was also a relief that no political agenda was a represented. We were skillfully confronted with a part of our human nature and behaviour that needs to change if we want to leave a planet for our children and grand children behind that they can enjoy.
Confronting and Beautiful
I had the privilege of seeing this at the local cinema and loved it. Right at the onset the question is posed "Could our way of life collapse?" and proceeds to show us why it is possible. What I appreciated most about the film was the deconstruction of ourselves as biological creatures who are mostly unaware that our evolutionary biology often works against us in this modern age. We are living in a matrix of our own making and hardly know how to step off the treadmill. The voices of the farmers were particularly to the point. "People think there's a machine in the back of the Piggly Wiggly that makes the food!". We are so far removed from the source of our own existence. While I found the film personally confronting it was beautiful to watch. It's a film that one can watch again and get more each time. While largely about our own psychology and there are some fantastic scientists in the field of evolutionary biology and psychology woven through the film, Clive Hamilton was particularly wonderful bringing forth the disturbing and possibly little known fact that governments and wealthy backers are seriously considering Geo-engineering. This is an incredibly foolish and frightening prospect if we are unable to change the path we're headed down. The film is fresh without all the stale cliché's seen in most plodding docs and It doesn't pit one group against another. I will be definitely making some changes in my life. Bravo and thank-you for putting this out.
Recommended viewing for all - particularly Politicians !!
It has taken me a while to process what was presented in the film at the Watershed Theater. There are so many wonderful scientists and some of the concepts covered were ways of thinking I hadn't really thought of before. If I were to say anything detracting about the film is that you have to pay attention - and might even need to watch it again. There's no spoon feeding here. The ocean sequence still haunts me. I absolutely LOVE the Earth Island thread - magnificent! Robert Trivers, who I had never heard of is delightful. He is one of the scientists who make learning all these concepts quite enjoyable. I would have liked to see more of Richard Dawkins. I like that the film looks at humans in general whether you are a green or an oil company executive - we are all in this. That was truly refreshing. I would hope people see this film before the elections. We really do suffer from our short-term thinking, certainly the politicians prove this!
Powerful
I saw this film with a group at a sneak peek recently and could not stop thinking about it. Luckily, one of the participants, Bruce Hood was on hand to extrapolate on some of the concepts covered in this film. We're really not aware of our actions as they relate to generations into the future. For the first time I understand why the tremendous debt countries have taken on pose such a problem and as one speaker so eloquently put it - when we take on debt we are promising to pay it back with future energy! No wonder we are constantly grabbing for resources. The thread using the cultural concept prevalent in ancient Hawaii that 'we're all in the same canoe' also hit home. We are so inter-related and inter-dependent and we're running out of space and resources to exploit and yet we behave as if we have an un-ending vast frontier left. The ocean section was truly shocking. Recommended viewing for discussion in schools.