HOME the documentary

I had vaguely heard of the documentary, HOME, by Frenchman Yann-Arthus Bertrand when I glanced through a piece in the newspaper (don't remember which) about a screening that happened in KL recently which I was previously not aware of.

When I was on YouTube over ther weekend, I clicked on the themed logo (which happens with Google-owned stuff) only to be redirected to the HOME YouTube channel (which is only gonna be avialble there until Sunday, 14th June). It's also available in other languages, so I wouldn't worry. No, it's not in Mandarin.

It took a couple of times and some hours (you can't expect me to sit and wait for it to load, no?) later to load the entire thing on Chrome (highly recommended for YouTub-ing) to watch it.

Being someone who (quite frankly) is not really into documentaries (could barely keep my eyes open watching An Inconvenient Truth..., and don't get me started on that), this did not draw me in - not in its entirety. While the aerial and time lapse photography was pretty stunning (so's the technology used to get the shots), but the narration could be less fear-mongering and less propaganda-ry. No, I'm not gonna knock Glenn Close's narration (I knew I had heard the voice before, but I couldn't place it until I read the wiki article).

Watch it if you've nothing better to do (not that the TV season is in summer hiatus).

I was about 15 minutes away from getting to the end when I accidentally killed the window. Another time, then :P