Review of Breath of Life

Spectacularly photographed in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Hawaii, Breath of Life is a strikingly beautiful film about what we actually know about the near future of the world. A future not as it might ordinarily appear to the average person, pundit, politician, or even the most hard nosed climate scientist, but seen through the eyes of some of the world's leading evolutionary biologists and thinkers. And although there are quite a few PhD's in the movie, it is the straight talk of farmers in the drought stricken western United States and the wisdom of Hawaiians from the most isolated place on earth that bring the message home to where the heart is. There are huge concepts here vividly portrayed about the deep structure of the human mind that have never been so eloquently expressed on film before. Why are we modern humans in denial about catastrophes of our own making that may come to pass sooner than we think? There are plenty of films that tell us what we are doing to ourselves and our planet that may put our progeny in grave peril. Breath of Life is the only film that shows us why. It does so with such beauty, intelligence, truth and wonder, it is mesmerizing to watch.