Immersion in the woods Quiet rustles, deep shadows, almost pristine forest, where a person is an infrequent guest. The forest is not a place, but a state. A very atmospheric documentary with wonderful angles, thanks to which you feel like an ant, then a night owl, then a dew, decorated with wet moss. This is a leisurely forest fairy tale, interweaving several life stories of forest inhabitants.
This thing became a real outlet when the head was overloaded with everyday troubles and wanted to plunge into a certain world where human twists and turns remain somewhere in the distance.
How often in times of life’s adversity, periods of depression, I would like to find myself in such a forest and watch with my own eyes the bumblebees in flower clearings, the battle of deer beetles, for small foxes, and I am sure that peace would reign again in the soul. But unfortunately, these stories come to life for us only in the screen, but despite this, they are beautiful.
Many amazing things we were able to see thanks to accelerated or slow shooting. The dance of moss heads is such a fascinating miracle!! And what is a drop that fell on a false raincoat, after which it exploded like a bomb in spores! And splashes of rainwater like beads falling from the feathers of bathing birds! . .
The forest is the embodiment of beauty and compositional completeness. Whose credit is it that we can admire it? Forests and their countless inhabitants glorify their Creator and Artist, God. “Praise the LORD,” the psalmist sang, “fruit-bearing trees and all cedars” (Psalm 148:7-9). The Creator also rightly proclaims, “My beasts are all in the forest, and cattle are on a thousand mountains” (Psalm 49:10).
Will we ever see forests in their original form? We do not know what the forests will be like in the centuries to come. God wants to protect the Earth’s ecosystems in the future. God promises to “destroy those who destroy the earth,” as recorded in the prophetic book of Revelation, so that no one else will harm his precious work of art and our home – Earth. Then we will be able to fully enjoy the beauty of the forests and comprehend their secrets.
In the end, I will say that this is a wonderful film. Be sure to see when you want something calm and shady, but at the same time fresh and inspiring. It won’t overwhelm you with an abundance of new information, but you’ll likely learn something you didn’t know about the mysterious life of the forest before. This time will not be wasted.