We watched the film Arctic Tale today. First I have to say that the film is AMAZING! Those people took fifteen years tracking the polar bears and walruses, they also need to endure such coldness to get the best shots. It is simply cool!
I never knew how a life of the polar bear or walruses would look like before I watch this film. The interactions between Mother Nature and the animals are incredible. I also realized how Global Warming is effecting animals survival. I read news about polar bears drowning while swimming across the sea, and the film helped me to visualize everything. I felt so guilty because the problems humans create are directly contributed to the death of those animals!
I was impressed by the team work of seals and the auntie taking care of other's child. It was quite amazing to see an animal has such family relationship with each other. Towards the end of the film, the auntie made a sacrifice to safe the young seal from the predator. I wonder if that is a sign of showing her emotion. Such brave action is the same as humans' behavior. It might be driven by the love towards the young seal because usually humans can make sacrifices for their loved ones.
When one of the young polar bear died, his families stayed beside him for a while. It made me think of what I wrote in the expedition 2 questions entry. The birds and the bear seem to have same kind of emotions when seeing their loved one died.
Another scene that made me wonder about whether animals have emotions is when the mother Polar bear was trying to drive her child away. The expression of her eyes is showing anger or at least expressing a "get away from me" message. Also, the narrator mentioned that the separation for the young polar bear was hard; I think it is because there is a certain degree of love between the mother and the child.
The arctic ice is melting faster than ever, this made me very worried about all the animals living in Arctics. I read news articles that write about environmental issues almost everyday, scientists said that Global Warming will continue to become worse. The early melting ice and weather changes made the animals expose to extreme risks. The polar bears and the walruses need to swim many miles before they find a new piece of ice; the wolfs cannot swim across the sea, so what should they do to survive? The animals are facing extinction because of human....
7 comments:
Hey Tina!!
Even though your blog is short, but you got to the point in which I can easily understand!!
I like the part where you leave the dot dot dot at the end so we can fill in the blank ourselves.
Good entry!! :D
Hey Tina. Great post! Its seems at though you and I both took the most important concepts from the video. We both talked about the loving relationships each animal had with their loved ones. I thought it was incredible to watch Nanu and her mother cuddle with the dieing brother. It undoubtedly showed the emotions that the polar bears expressed. I think the main message they wanted us to get from the documentary was about Global Warming and its affects on the Artic. Global Warming is a scary thing. I don't know if you remember my presentation from the First semester but I talked about a lot of things you can do to help alleviate the affects of GW. Remember, car pool, change your light bulbs, and turn the water off when you brush your teeth. By doing this you are helping a bunch!! Good job with this entry! :)
P.S. July 12th rocks!!
I want to comment on two points of your blog entry. First point is I agree with how much dedication the filming crew put into this movie just to remind people the situation we are facing right now. The filming crew worked fifteen years in such harsh condition to film the life of the polar bears and walrus. And they did an awesome job on different filming angles and I can tell all of those people dedicate A LOT for this movie.
The second point I want to make is about you believing animals got emotions. When Nanu's brother died, Nanu staid beside his dead body for a while. However, if the polar bears have emotions, why would the male polar bear attack the female polar bears? Is it possible if Nanu staid beside his brother's dead body for such a long time is because she is hesitating if she should eat his brother or not? Because her mother and she are in a very difficult situation to find food for living.
Just few interesting points to think about. Overall, great job!
This is also my first time actually seeing the impacts of Global Warming on the animals in the Arctic. Pitifully, the best mental image I had of that before watching Arctic Tale was the well known computer made 3-D animation of the polar bear drowning in the ocean.
After hearing many people talking about it, I too am starting to doubt the role of the narration. When Nanu's mother drove her away, did she do it out of love or did it just mean that she could no longer provide for the two of them? We always try to relate animal thoughts and emotions to what humans might think, but the animals might have their own perspectives that we will never be able to understand and interpret.
Great post. :)
Tina, this is why the earth needs people like you to go out and fight for it! Great entry.
Angus, you bring up some good points about whether or not it's emotions or just evolution. The same can be said of humans and how much we call emotions is not actually just our evolutionary drive.
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