The Year Earth Changed

2021

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Reviewed by southdavid7 / 10

Animal Planet

I'm not sure that 48 minutes really qualifies as a feature, but Apple TV had this documentary in their Feature Films section so, dutiful to the last, I watched it. I don't particularly enjoy animal documentaries (which is a problem seeing Apples output has so many) but the particular theme of this one made it much more interesting.

As the lockdown response to Covid 19 begins in March of 2020, the reduction of traffic, trade, manufacturing and vacations has a positive effect on many aspects of the animal kingdom. Turtles and penguins, who usually find their beach nesting activities interrupted by humans are able to rear in greater number than they have in years. Whales and Cheetah's are able to hunt over further distances, safe in the knowledge that, for once, they will be able to hear if their offspring is in trouble. Is there more that humans should be doing, to live in greater harmony with animals?

In some ways, my overall feeling about the documentary is that it's depressing. Depressing because I'm sure that we won't learn anything. We could let the turtles have that beach entirely during breeding season, but we won't because the next beach is an inconvenient 5 minutes' walk away. We could let that cheetah call its cubs and watch a family survive from a respectful distance, but we won't because we might miss the best shot filming something we're never going to look at again.

Naturally though, it's beautiful to look at and the pandemic was a unique opportunity to get shots of these animals in the habitats that we've taken from them. A jaguar patrolling around a luxury resort or deer roaming a usually busy road. David Attenborough is the undisputed king of nature commentary and he's on his usual form here.

It'd be nice, or perhaps informative, to revisit these scenes again in a few months and see what, if any, improvements were maintained, but I fear I already know the answer.

Reviewed by ks-605007 / 10

See what we did

Human have affected the wild life in the past til the lock down in 2020. This documentary demonstrated how animals life been better after the human footage disappeared. It just dawn on me how to respect and coexist with living creatures in this planet. Just imagine how irritating when someone play video on bus without headset, chatting loudly in public area without consideration. Wild animals are distributed by human beings the same way, even more severe.

Reviewed by Cineanalyst6 / 10

Life After People

Given that there are continuously more species listed as endangered and that we're living during a mass extinction, as all the while the human race continues to grow, pumping out pollution and occupying more space, it's not surprising that animals thrive when we cut back from our usual activities. Of all the pandemic-related movies I've watched over longer than the past year now--a hundred some and counting, I reckon--"The Year Earth Changed" is easily the most optimistic, feel-good one. It's nice to see that while the human race has been intermittently in lockdown or otherwise retreating in fear of the spread of a deadly virus, someone is out and about thriving as they haven't been able to in years--just greater socializing, family unity, feeding frenzies and orgies. The animal kingdom does quite well without people.

The colorful nature cinematography is nice to look at, too, on my television as I continue to quarantine myself at home. It's, perhaps, not quite as lovely as the last nature documentary I saw, the Oscar-winning "My Octopus Teacher" (2020),but I sure prefer the tried-and-true narration of David Attenborough here. Sure, it's not especially enlightening, and the ending is rather laughably optimistic--that people might coexist better with other species if we just do a little of this or not so much of that. Conservationists or environmentalists have been saying that for decades, and we've continued to do the opposite. I mean, we're going to go back to drowning out those mating and feeding calls, disrupting those migration habits, hiding the Himalayas behind smog, and chasing away elephants and whatnot to make room for our crops in short order again. We've already greatly picked up the pace since the shutdowns last year. In the meantime, though, have a drink on me, you party animals.

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