《Great Bear Rainforest》Into the giant screen: a nature lesson starting in the rainforest

The giant-screen popular science film - Big Bear Rainforest - entered CINITY and CLED cinemas across the country on September 5.The film takes the camera to the cloud forests of British Columbia, Canada, where salmon migration, spirit bears and aboriginal culture unfold on the big screen.For many viewers, this is a rare trip to the rainforest and a theater observation that can be completed with children.

The charm of rainforest themes often comes from the waiting in the picture.The camera follows the river, waiting for the fish to swim upstream; it passes through the moist woodland, waiting for traces of life hidden among the branches and leaves to reveal themselves.Those sounds, lights and actions that are easily ignored by the naked eye, when magnified on a giant screen, will make people realize that a forest is always full of movement, and each species maintains the order of interrelation in its own position.Waiting itself has also become a very patient narrative in documentary images.

The film chooses spirit bears as an important subject of observation.They live deep in the rainforest, and their coat color blends in with the environment, giving them a sense of mystery when they appear.The salmon migration brings abundant nutrients to the forest, and the river, bears, birds and trees form a visible life chain.The documentary does not rush to turn knowledge into handouts. Many answers are hidden in real scenes and animal actions.

The popular science screening program launched simultaneously with the film has brought nature-themed images to nearly 300 CINITY theaters in more than 90 cities across the country.Forests, oceans, rivers, polar regions and microscopic creatures will gradually become the protagonists on the screen.The darkness and silence in the theater just give these distant scenes a complete space. The audience can temporarily leave the daily rhythm and follow a beam of light into a place they have never been before.

Showing nature documentaries in theaters can give the images themselves a stronger sense of presence.The clouds and mist moved in the valley, the scales of fish flashed across the water, and the calls from the distance were no longer just fragments on the computer screen.The large size of the image preserves the depth of the landscape, allowing the viewer to see not just an animal or a spectacle, but also the climate, rivers and seasons on which it depends.

--The Great Bear Rainforest-puts scientific observations into textured movie scenes.It's suitable for family audiences, but also for anyone willing to stop and see the other side of the world.After walking out of the theater, the memory of a rain forest may remain with you for a long time: a fish swimming upstream, a bear standing by the river, and how a forest breathes quietly.