Home director Yann Arthus-Bertrand says his intention is to conjure emotions through beauty. "We live in denial," he says. "We don't want to believe what we know - so I want to show it to people." By "it", he means poverty and the destruction of the Earth.
Arthus-Bertrand first fell in love with a bird's eye view in his early 30s when he earned money as an air balloon pilot in Kenya. Inspired by the beauty, poverty and destruction he saw, he began to take photos to share with others. He says these scenes tell stories that transformed him, and thus he wants to transform others into activists that care for humanity.
The entire movie consists of high definition aerial shots filmed from a helicopter. It opens with forces of nature - sparkling mineral deposits, roaring waterfalls, cliffs carved by glaciers - and zooms in at elephant herds and a circular Masai settlement. We then hover over urban, rural, and suburban communities across 54 countries. Fishermen set out in skinny canoes, machines spray acres of crops, construction crews quickly haul beams up along sky scrapers. Around the world, children look up at the camera smiling and waving. On a glacier in the Arctic, polar bears look up quixotically as well.
"I think we need a revolution, Not an economic, religious, or scientific revolution, but an ethical and moral revolution. We do not have the right to ruin our land. We must protect it." - Arthus-Bertrand."
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