REFLECTION TASK 2.b

    MAN

   
 

I choose this short movie named "MAN" by Steve Cutts. When I first watched it, I thought that it illustrates exactly just in three and a half minute what human beings has been doing to the nature since the first appearance of them. It is quite an impressive short movie, ıt has a high tempo which makes it very attractive. At the beginning of the movie, when the man first appeared on the secreen bird and squirrel  voices can be heard and music is slower, after the animals saw the man they run away. I think  director wants to describe the man as a creature that needs to be afraid. During the movie, we see just a man but billions of people are guilty of the destruction of  the nature, I think a man symbolises that environmental pollution  is the fault of all humanity also even just a man can damage the environment seriously. The music gets faster as the movie flows. As the voice of the background music rises, the flow of incidents accelerates too. When the music is slower, ancient times are described when there was less people on earth and there was less harm. The accelaration of the music and fast flow of incidents describes the population growth and excessive increase in consumption.We see on the ship  the expression "ruler of the sea". This ruler pollutes the sea, kills the seals, cuts the trees, kills the animals, establish factories to feed himself.Towards the end, we see that sky gets darker, piles of dumps rises, there is no animal and  nature sound. The end of the movie is very ironic and like a punishment for man. When he first appeared on earth, he crushed a ladybird likewise, when aliens fist appeared on earth they crushed man and made a mat from him.