IMAX – ‘Deep Sea’
The IMAX at the science museum shows 3D films on a variety of science topics such as the moon landings, International Space Station and Wildlife.
‘Deep Sea’ is a documentary program about sea creatures, their environment and the interactions between them. The film focuses on the theme of symbiosis between fish and coral in the oceans whilst including interesting details about a diverse range of creatures, open sea and coral cleaning stations and the coral reefs themselves.
Overall I think that ‘Deep Sea’ focuses too much on the theme of symbiosis and is intellectually aimed at a young audience. I did not feel that it was necessary for every interesting point to be linked to this one idea and thought the film was long enough to have more than one main theme. However the film was very enjoyable. The 3D imagery was excellent making you feel you really were underwater in one of the world’s most beautiful environments, and the music was excellently integrated to create the peaceful atmosphere of the deep sea. I think that 3D cinema is an excellent media for this kind of film, allowing people to get really close to creatures and an environment that they would otherwise never experience.
‘Deep Sea’ includes a topical message: over fishing of the oceans is destroying the balance between ecosystems and causing the coral to die. I felt this was an excellent fact to include and was very effective within the media of the film. ‘Deep Sea’ also captures the wonder of science with facts such as how “all the coral in the ocean spawn precisely one hour after sunset eight days after the full moon in August.” This for me creates a fascination with science which I think is perhaps the best aspect of the film.
3 comments:
I think most IMAX go for that "wonder" thing. The one on the sun is hilarious. There is a great book called the American Technological Sublime (by, I think, David Nye) which has a section on this in the last chapter.
... I wanted to ask, you said it was too aimed at a young audience. Maybe that is the audience they were wanting though, so it's only "too" much from your perspective?
I'm not really sure what audience it was aimed at, but the language used was quite technical at times and I thought that anyone who understood it all would probably have found it more interesting if there was more than one theme.
that's a fair point - it's likekly there's something slightly confused about the movie if it's not clear who the audience are
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