The Private Life of Plants [Region 2]
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Actor: David AttenboroughDVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: PAL
DVD Reviews of The Private Life of Plants [Region 2]
DVD Review: Hours of stunning time-lapsed photography of spectacular botany
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the 5th entry in the David Attenborough Life series following Life in the Freezer. The groundbreaking first series Life on Earth was based on evolution and started with bacteria making its way up to modern humans over the course of 13 episodes. The Living Planet was 12 episodes long and dealt mainly with adaptation over a wide range of environments that also incorporated more Earth science along with the life science in terms of geology and environments. The Trials of Life was 12 episodes long and all about animal behaviour. Life in the freezer was 6 episodes long and specialized on the Antarctic.
Following Attenborough new move to specialize instead of following the 12-13 episode discipline that started with Clark's Civilisations and Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and birthed other great series like Sagan's Cosmos, Attenborough sticks with the shorter episode format of his previous non-life series such as The Tribal Eye, The First Eden and Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives for 6 instalments on another expert theme, Attenborough concentrates on one animal kingdom, the plants, and not only introduces what could be one of his most elaborate commentaries to date but brings us startling technical achievements in computer generates imagery for biological pathways and revolutionary time-lapsed photography techniques that even moves with the subject matter. This may be his best outing since Life on Earth.
While Life in the Freezer being the first of the shorter life series might have been low in the amount of diversity, The Private Life of Plants is at the other end of the spectrum, with so many variations from microbe-sized plants, seaweeds, mosses, flowers and trees the show ranges from the atom size to the monstrous, each with maybe more information than several Attenborough shows put together, this series blows you away from the opening sequence to the last where Attenborough stresses that we are doomed if we destroy it all, you have never seen an Attenborough Life presentation like it. The time-lapsed photography is incredible as we see plants moving in ways that you would never have thought possible, paying special detail to how they can climb by coiling or using tension to move, some plants are even meat eating predators that respond almost instantly when trapping an insect or secrete glue like chemicals to stick them to it. We see plants growing inside rocks in extreme environments such as the Antarctic and above the clouds on mountainous plateaus where they exist nowhere else, trees also bigger than blue whales and some thousands of years old. There are lots of symbiotic relationships to birds and insects but more importantly to fungi. While fungi aren't plants, Attenborough still devotes a large segment of one episode to them because they are so important. Major themes include how plants travel, how they grow, how they flower, how they compete with each other, how they live together and how they survive rough conditions. The sheer scope and volume of work packed into 6 episodes makes this quite simply one of the best documentaries ever made.
DVD Review: Breathtaking!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was going to school in Ireland when this came out and I remember watching in on television at that time. Never would I have imagined I could be that mesmerized by the plant world! David Attenborough draws you in and doesn't let go. You, literally, won't believe your eyes. I am so disappointed that this isn't available for DVD players this side of the pond. I still vividly remember this from watching it nearly 15 years ago and it is something I had wanted to share with my children. I hope that it will eventually be something people can enjoy on a more widespread basis in the US because it is spectacular!DVD Review: WOW! But how about a US or Canada [Region 1]??
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic series that I would love to own. David Attenborough is at his best!! PLEASE put this on a US or Canada [Region 1]DVD!! DVD Review: The best wild life documentary on Plants
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far the best documentary on plants that I have ever seen. It is one of my all time favourite David Attenborough documentary films. I've watched it several times and I'll look forwards to watching it many more times. The filming is beyond amazing. There are a lot of time lapse camera scenes which will give you a totally different perspective on how plant live and behave. This documentary will give you a whole new way of looking at nature. This documentary is a classic and a must have. It is one of those documentaries that you'll pull off the shelve every now and then to watch and still be amazed by it.DVD Review: The Private Life of Plants
Summary: 5 Stars
The first time I came across this documentary on VHS, I watched it twice because it was so remarkable. From there after, I would frequently talk about this documentary to my friends and have them watch it too. Already a botanist at heart, this series reeled me deeper into the remarkable world of plants and I am undeniably hooked. David Attenborough does an excellent job at explaining how things work in the plant world, with his charming wit and lightheartedness his documentary has the ability to reach out to a diverse group of audiences and is sure to marvel many.
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