‘Postcard from Earth’ Is a Cinematic Miracle and Implicit Guilt Trip | by Ben Ulansey | Dec, 2024
Playing in only one theater in the world, this spellbinding visual experience alone may be worth a trip to Las Vegas
As climate change has worsened and our outlook on the future has grown increasingly dire, it often feels as though no project devoted to showcasing the world’s beauty is complete without a sober narration from David Attenborough about all that we stand to lose. It’s a message that’s loomed over each of his docuseries since Life on Earth released in 1979.
By the time Planet Earth came out in 2006, though, Attenborough’s pleas about conservation became harder and harder to ignore. The conversation about the majesty of life was incomplete without addressing the state of jeopardy we’d entered into. To speak only of the beauty and skip conveniently over the calamity would be a disservice to us all.
It’s by parading our profound interconnectedness that Attenborough drives home the stakes of the moment at hand. He doesn’t spend the entire duration of his documentaries harping on travesties. It’s in honing in on the miracles of life that he communicates his most pointed message.
One of the most terrifying realities of our changing climate is the way we’ve allowed the…
