This documentary has been sitting in my Netflix List for a long time. What was I thinking?? I had no idea that this marvelous documentary/story was a treasure waiting to be discovered by me. I am near the beginning of the 3rd episode and I just had to stop now and write this review before I go any further. I just learned about the history of this chimpanzee world and how experienced its rivalry and divided. I felt like I was hearing the story of America that was once a British colony ruled by a monarch (central chimpanzee nation ruled by Jackson) and then the American rebels who left and established democracy (westerners...shared, cooperative rulership).
I agree wholeheartedly with all of the comments that spoke to the cinematography, story telling, research, narration.... I could go on and on...but it's all there already, beautifully described by others, just believe it.
For everyone like me who searches for a "good story well told", this is it.
The only other comment that I can add, is that as I watch this, I again scold the human race that has, for years, dumbed down the animals so that we can feel better about how we treat them. I hope that this film can put to rest any doubt in the most skeptical mind of the ability of animal's to think, feel, strategize, reason, calculate, administer justice, police, cast judgment, establish political systems and ones that can vary from one tribe to the next, remember their past and learn from it (look how the westerners decided to try something different in rulership and how they adjusted the role of the females due to their small size), hold grudges, have preferences, develop friendships, loyalties, etc. Etc.
Enough...I have to go back...I'm more excited to return to this story than I have been about any series since Games of Thrones.
I agree wholeheartedly with all of the comments that spoke to the cinematography, story telling, research, narration.... I could go on and on...but it's all there already, beautifully described by others, just believe it.
For everyone like me who searches for a "good story well told", this is it.
The only other comment that I can add, is that as I watch this, I again scold the human race that has, for years, dumbed down the animals so that we can feel better about how we treat them. I hope that this film can put to rest any doubt in the most skeptical mind of the ability of animal's to think, feel, strategize, reason, calculate, administer justice, police, cast judgment, establish political systems and ones that can vary from one tribe to the next, remember their past and learn from it (look how the westerners decided to try something different in rulership and how they adjusted the role of the females due to their small size), hold grudges, have preferences, develop friendships, loyalties, etc. Etc.
Enough...I have to go back...I'm more excited to return to this story than I have been about any series since Games of Thrones.