Monday I went after a lecture and a visit to the library to a cinema to see the BBC´s nature movie "Deep Blue", which is based on the material of BBC´s "Blue Planet" -series, which was made for the TV. I had watched some of the episodes in the serie, and the movie had the same good and bad points as those episodes.

First, it´s a beautiful movie and the views of marine animals are beautiful on the big screen. Especially the animals of the deep ocean are just amazing. Secondly, there are disturbing scenes of violence. Well, nature is cruel and violence is of course part of the life in the seas, but some of the scenes felt a little bit sensational and especially the drowning of the baby whale seemed to be made as cruel as possible by the script. And I felt that the makers were putting human emotions to animals, describing the killer whales just as "killers" and trying to make the scene as weepy as possible. Anyway, in the series it was made clear what kind of role dead whales have in the ecosystem of the seas and here it lacked. I first was thinking the actions of animals in the movie too much in human terms, but then I thought the awful things that humans do to other humans all the time and even if that didn´t make the suffering of the unfortunate sea lions less sad, it certainly made me feel better. Even if the killer whales were playing with the dying sea lion, it was necessary practice for their future. One can´t say the same when one reads from the day´s newspaper about the recent violent crimes.

It was a good movie, but it ended abruptly. I would give it four stars.