★★★★★ 0/5
All the drama of Life Story
Warning: I was on the edge of my seat watching this gob-smacking vision....
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Warning: some scenes may shock.
Tuesday’s opening sequence of David Attenborough’s Life Story is gobsmacking storytelling: base-jumping birds.
In Greenland Barnacle geese hatch their 5 chicks atop a 120 metre cliff-face, but it will be 8 weeks before they can fly.
So they only way they can eat green grass in order to survive -IS TO JUMP!
Who will survive the fall and whose life will be over before it has barely begun?
This is utterly compelling vision, with all the emotion of heightened music, slow-mo footage and David Attenborough’s own dramatic narration.
I was on the edge of my seat. You may not want your kids to watch this stuff.
Airs 8:40pm Tuesday on Nine.
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8 Responses
Watched it when it came out last year!
Great series. Worth a watch. Although did find a couple of the episodes seemed to drag on a little bit.
Shame it’s not being shown in HD. It’s a visually stunning series
Truly amazing footage, how did that little fluffy thing survive?
And in the words of George Costanza… “That’s gotta hurt”
A reminder… there are 5 of them!
So only one survived? 🙁
Can’t spoil it!
Attenborough shows just how good television can be, again. Pity about the 8:40 time slot.
Wow.
Holy crap. Knew about this but haven’t seen footage like that before. Thankfully, this is the BBC and not Jonathan M. Shiff, so the music was subtle and supportive rather than urgent and overwhelming. It let the vision speak for itself rather than the other way around.