Blue Planet II (2017)
Film details
Documentary · Family · Alastair Fothergill · 1h 0min
Synopsis
There is nowhere more powerful and unforgiving yet more beautiful and compelling than the ocean. Join us and explore the greatest yet least known parts of our planet.
Verdict
An anthropologically sound documentary that awakens awe before creation.
In-depth analysis
Blue Planet II situates itself on the artistic and philosophical plane, offering a rigorous portrait of oceanic life through advanced technologies that reveal unprecedented animal behaviors. Without humanized narratives or anthropomorphic dramatizations, the documentary presents biological reality in its natural rawness: predation as an essential life cycle, without explicit gore or sensationalism. This Chestertonian approach to common sense—the obviousness of the natural order—contrasts with productions that impose ideological agendas. Here, natural law emerges in its splendor: ecological complementarity, the filiation between species, and the wonder at the providence that sustains 70% of the planet. There is no ideological contraband; on the contrary, it invites the cheerful realism of Chesterton, where creation awakens the Lewisian Sehnsucht, that longing for the infinite. For parents, it is a reliable criterion: it fosters human flourishing by educating the contemplative gaze, valuing the dignity of life in all its forms without relativism. The TV-G certification calibrates its accessibility, with moderate violence limited to real predatory interactions (hunts, territorial struggles), absent of sex or language. In a world of surreptitious social engineering, this work restores roots: man as a humble spectator of an ordered cosmos, not as an engineer of subjective realities. Ideal for forming in the virtue of wonder and ecological responsibility rooted in truth.