......From the official website of NG:
The Okavango River Basin provides a vital source of water to about 1 million people, the world’s largest population of African elephants and significant populations of lions, cheetahs and hundreds of species of birds. However, this once unspoiled oasis is now under siege due to increasing pressure from human activity. From National Geographic Documentary Films, Into the Okavango chronicles a team of modern-day explorers on their first epic four-month, 1,500-mile expedition across three countries to save the river system that feeds the Okavango Delta, one of our planet’s last wetland wildernesses.
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Instead of focusing on one place, this documentary follows the scientific project led by ornithologists Steve, exploring three contries related to the Okawango Delta from upstream to downstream...It's an 80-days expedition to a place that has had no human intervention for millions of years, a place that is 'as perfect as it used to be'... In the end of the story, it becomes a spiritually transformative trip for Adjany, a young modern girl from Angola who is a refugee from the civil war and had no hope for her own country at the onset.
she said:
"What used to be my grandmother's apartment? ... I remember we are rushing to the toilet inside, all my cousins uncles. Aunts parents, my grandparents around a week in the corridor ...(The war) impacted our possibility to think a long-term , people saying now we don’t make plans for 5-10 years, history tells you that is the 'now' that matters ...can you make money now? can you support yourself now ? ...In the past 10 years Angola has changed so much. Because of development of building infrastructure and massive irrigation schemes..."
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"We are setting on to do something no one has ever done before. Find the source and follow the water all the way down to the Delta. Try to figure out what’s happening to 3 countries rely on this watershed. No one is connecting them. I wanna bring me to water source of the Okavango...
Steve asked the researcher that can join the project and one of my university teachers thought I would be crazy enough, it was literally a leap of faith... "
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As the movie states in the begining, one of the truths about the modern world is that people are becoming increasingly 'detached from each other' . There are fewer and fewer places for wildness in the human-made world, as the film shows, even places like Okawango face challenges such as less water and space for the indigneous inhabitants...
For today's human being,wild places like Okawango represent one of the few places that are out of human control.
The feeling of losing control is despiced by most of people...
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Undoubtedly, "Into the Okavango" has received positive reviews from critics and audiences alike for its stunning cinematography, compelling storyline, and informative portrayal of the Okavango Delta and its inhabitants.
For me, what a impressive moment when Mr. Water incorporates with a local bird to hunt honey for a hole in a trunk. As a bee history and anthropology lover, it is really fascinating to see someone truely apply wild 'tricks' to connect with a multi-species ecosystem...
As Adjany said in the dawn of the documentary,
"Your senses surged up...
Atomes in our bodies change throughout this expedition, i feel so much deeper before I can actually connect and link different context of different things...
Very honest, here for now, I see the opportunity and I see the hope for things to change the country..."
As Steve wantS to express,
" I realise that everything in life is not like a machine, it doesn’t run itself. Wetland in the Delta above the water line is bulit by germites ....
Everything is connected"
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What a satire it is to watch such an ecological documentary in a city of desire...
Few audiences delve into the content of this film and the deep thoughts it wants to convey . Instead, people tend to focus on the beautiful scenes in the documentary and how visually stunning it is...
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