Good Glasses

Our senses are very limited. The world’s problems nowadays go beyond our gaze. As much as the news bombs us with detailed information, we are incapable to understand the dimension of actual problems through the words. Even the documentaries images are made from the earth, and that means that they focus in a particular point of view of the conflicts we try to understand. Too small: we won’t be able to understand the problems, because our problems are worldwide problems. So, combining this limited vision with the ambiguity of words, it’s very complicated to explain and understand the problems around us.

Our vision is, basically, reduced to our most immediate environment. We can’t have global perspective of wars, demographic or climatic problems… even if we are capable of conceptually assimilate them. We need new glasses that must allow us to approach to the world: not with the generalist frivolity, but to push out into in its total. The documentary Home is nearly composed of aerial shots of multiple places all over the world. The images are filmed 100 meters above the ground and it shows the ecological assortment of life on the planet and how humanity has became a threat for the balance of the planet. The film’s essence lies in showing the images from a unlimited point of view, without filters, so they become into ideas autonomous enough. It’s a film with a powerful educational propose, perfectly understandable for adult and child audiences.

This film has been filmed for eighteen months: the shooting team, with the director Yann Arthus-Bertrand as the leader, have flied above more than fifty countries on a helicopter. The result is a complete puzzle of our world: an amazing shot panorama of the world we live in and the damage we’re doing to it with our modern ways of consume. "Everybody can prosper and earn a decent living... Let's be responsible consumers; think about what we buy..." The documentary includes a voiceover narration which explains the evolution of the Earth, its nature, agriculture, humanity and all the disasters we cause: natural habitats destruction, energy depletion, climate disruption… There are a lot of global issues that must be understood and resolved. In fact, this film explains us the most important of these problems and the necessity of acting fast and together to resolve them.