Warner Brothers and director Stephen MacGillivray present a
3-D Imax 45-minute “museum” film, “To The Arctic 3D”, depicting a polar bear and
her two cubs struggling to find food in a world where ice floes to carry them
are getting scarcer, in a warming climate. (Sorry -- my brain momentarily scrambled the title with Paramount's "Into the Wild".)
The film does document the fact that the north polar ice cap
will probably disappear in summer completely by 2050. The North Pole is supposed to keep some ice cap all summer long, even though it is smaller than the Antarctic's.
The polar bear is related to the brown bear, with the male
almost twice the size of the sow. The film depicts the rogue male as a threat to kill
or eat the young of the female.
But as a species, the polar bear is under threat.
But as a species, the polar bear is under threat.
The film doesn’t have the narrative focus or storytelling
that “Chimpanzee”, which also came out during Earth Week, does.
The film shows seals and walruses, and has a stirring
sequence where the mom and cubs are making the most of a small seal for a meal.
Most of the scenery in the film is just ice and water. But there is one impressive sequence showing
rocky fjords, rather like a scene out of Toiken. The film appears to have been shot in far
northeastern Canada.
The Smithsonian link for the film is here.
The film could be compared to “Arctic Tale”, in 2007 from
Paramount Vantage (dir. Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robinson), with Queen Latifah
narrating, telling a duel story of a female polar bear and female walrus.
There is a review of “Rescue 3D” on the “Films on Major
Challenges to Freedom Blog” May 8. It
shows across the Mall at Air and Space.
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