The Life of Mammals
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Life of Mammals DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.77:1 Running Time: 500 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: BBC Warner |
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Movie Reviews of The Life of Mammals
Movie Review: Astonishing
Summary: 5 Stars
The Life of Mammals is a stunning work of incredible range and scope, taking us from the frozen wastes of the arctic to searing deserts to lush rain forests. The film highlights the range of behaviors among mammals, illustrating the remarkable ways in which they have solved the problems created by the escalating evolutionary battle for food, for a mate, for a place to live. Some of the more wonderful images include bats delicately plucking spiders from their webs, elephants trooping into an African cave in the middle of the night, and remarkable predatory dramas on the savannah.As with all David Attenborough films, this one is dense with interesting facts. Each segment provides new insights into the behavior of animals, even for such prosaic beasts as wildebeasts and gazelles. The Life of Mammals appears to me different from Attenborough's previous works in its aggressive use of novel camera techniques, which is very successful, taking us for instance inside the egg of a platypus.
This film also combines the superb visuals with a brilliant score. The music, which is at times mournful, at times crackling with tension, and at times positively soaring, adds an inspiring sense of drama. This is justified not only by the subject matter, which is indeed sublime, but by David Attenborough himself, who as far as I am concerned is an absolutely unparalleled genius.
If I haven?t yet sold you, consider the price of this work, which at $... constitutes remarkable value for the 500 minutes you get. Just a year or so ago, The Trials of Life series on VHS (which is of comparable length, but without the whistles and bells that this DVD gives you) cost $...