UNMISSABLE. That was the first word shouting out loudly in my head when thinking about how I would tell people what I thought of ‘OCEAN with DAVID ATTENBOROUGH’.
This PHENOMENAL film is so much more than watching ‘nature’ and hearing the now 99 year old’s famous ‘voiceover’ we have grown to expect and appreciate in any of his documentaries.
The movie ‘OCEAN’ is, in parts, like a horror movie. Thankfully however, in other parts, a lifeline of information; a jaw-dropping visual learning experience that only the superpowers of David Attenborough and his team could present on big screens across the world.
You must see it on the big screen. It is a production piece like you have never seen before. It contains material never seen before. No matter how knowledgeable you are in ‘saving our planet’, you will undoubtedly learn things you did not know about in detail. You will be shocked. You will be hopeful. This movie will change your view of everything about our planet and our future. For sure, you will never look at the ocean in the same way again.
The legendary Sir Attenborough says himself that he would find it difficult to believe a dreaded fate was inevitable if it wasn’t for just one thing; the ocean can rebuild itself, if we let it. We must. We must protect it.
We must tell as many people as possible to go and see this movie. We must act. We must communicate to everyone in government who can help make the right decisions to make changes to laws worldwide and plead with them to act now. Hence my review – if just one more person sees this movie because they are curious – one more person may pray and tell another… and so on….. we all have to do something. We can at least all do something small to help something so big!
Next month in June, leaders across world nations will meet in France at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference and vote on whether or not to effectively protect 30% of our oceans. In the world currently that percentage is less than 3%!!! How can this be? How can we NOT be already adequately protecting the vast ecosystems our planet needs to thrive?
How can it be legal for huge 24/7 factory-like ships to trawl through and totally decimate stunningly beautiful underwater landscapes in minutes that have taken hundreds of years to grow, as if they were using a hoe over a garden bed to take out a few weeds in the backyard? This practice is, put simply, MADNESS!
The planet, in some form, may ultimately survive, but we as a species may not. Unassumingly stated by an interviewee in the movie, this was what my daughter and I somberly took away from our time sitting together in awe at The Waverley Cinema in Pinewood. A lovely little local cinema (which I grew up visiting as a child and still with cheap tickets) delivered the most powerful message I have ever heard in a movie anywhere. I said that to the door attendant on the way out and he replied ‘that’s what everyone has said’.
Like everyone else, I don’t need any study background or a degree in marine biology to tell me that I want my children’s great-grandchildren to have a healthy planet to live on – don’t we all want that?
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZAdCtKT_g
NOTE: The Waverley Cinema, 41 Centreway, Pinewood Shopping Centre, Mt. Waverley is part of the Showbiz group of cinemas and offers not only traditional movie viewing of all the latest and favourites on their four screens, but also group deals, fundraising opportunities and special events.
Check them out: https://waverley.showbizcinemas.com.au
