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Polar Bear Interference


I am betting this has been re-hashed more than once, but I lost all respect for the producers during credits.

The film is presented as a non-interfering look at earth's nature. They then show the polar bear approaching the crew who are hiding out in some kind of hut. Who knows what kind of energy that poor animal used in trying to get at the film crew. It could have been hours, or days. It was obviously already at some stage of starvation. At the point it reached the walruses, it had nothing left in the tank. If the crew indeed left the animal for dead, citing 'circle of life,' when they had clearly invaded its territory to the point it saw and approached them, I have zero respect for that. The bear had hunting instincts intact, is endangered, and the crew would rather film it starving to death than to grab some fish or some nearby food resource? It was sickening how they almost seemed to want to grab 'the shot' rather than being of assistance and being of help to the planet they are so keen to film.

I respect leaving the animals to their elements, but the film should have been called 'observing and filming the deaths of 5-6 animals.' put some hope in there, show some greater good, do the human thing and show some compassion. This film lacked all those things. From a cinematography point of view, 10 out of 10. For the rest of it, bottom of the scale.

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I thought about this too. I couldn't imagine them filming the father polar bear, seeing that he couldn't get food on his own, and then pack up and leave.

According to this website, http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears/faq#q2, it states "In May 2008, U.S. Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act." So letting another one die would be endangering the species even more. If anything they could have filmed him giving up and then fed him some food as they left. I don't think we'll ever know what happened if they didn't say something about it in an interview.

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You do understand that without that hut, they could not have stayed out in the arctic for days or weeks on end to film, don't you? Without somewhere for the crew to stay, there would not have been a polar bear segment of the movie.

"When this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious *beep*

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I highly doubt they had a stationary hut for weeks on end, unless I missed something in a making of segment?

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