Title: Wished filmakers trusted original idea more
Product review: Spoilers below...The movie has stunning images and it's at its best when showing animal behavior. Unfortunately there are too many 'birds in distress' scenes, with the distress usually coming by way of humans, which take us out of the world of the birds and into the world of a 'message' movie.Spoiler: distress scenes like hunting, drowing in oil, caged for market, about to be run over by a combine.If these scenes were fewer and shown in matter-of-fact manner, maybe I'd have liked the film better. But the reaction shots of the birds were obviously picked for their emotive quality, and the music played during these scenes is overly leading, so that the effect tends toward smugness.I wished the filmakers would have stuck to showing the incredible alien beauty of birds and their behavior in a more straightforward manner. The 'story elements' of death and distress worked against what they should have been going for.
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