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2 Amazing Scenes (and one peculiar)

posted 16 years ago by okiemoviebuff
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I found this film completely amazing. There were two shots that I found specifically intriguing:

1) Near the beginning a bee is inside a flower and the flower reaches out and plops a pile of pollen on the bee's back. I was totally amazed, that flower knew exactly what it was doing. I had no idea that bees and flowers interacted with this level of intelligence.

2) The scene also near the beginning where the two flowers are growing towards each other. It really looks like they are reaching out to each other and also seem to take human shape. Amazing.

3) When the dung beetle is pushing around the pile of whatever it is and gets it stuck on a stick, is the stick placed in its path? Is the ground and the stick manufactured or did this occur in nature. It looks so perfectly natural that it leads me to believe that it was made in a studio with fake rocks and a plastic stick. Maybe I am over thinking it.

There were many jaw-dropping scenes in the film. It makes me wonder what the true purpose of the film was given the lack of narration and sequence paired with the musical choices. Very intriguing.

[–] mxjgr 15 years ago

To point 3):

Yes, I think the stick was placed there by the film crew to show how the dung beetle would deal with it.
And I guess that a large number of scenes (the majority?) where actually done in a studio. Otherwise it would be quite impossible to film them.

[–] notsocrazyroy 8 years ago

To point (1)

The flower doesn't know what it's doing, there is no brain involved. It's a reflex action in response to stimulation by the bee, same principle as a Venus Fly Trap or the Sundew plant seen later in the film.

This means something, this is important.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

Those were definitely two great scenes!

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