I have decided to review a documentary called “Blue Planet II: Big Blue.” This documentary is available for anyone to watch on Netflix and is in my opinion, one of the best documentaries for younger people who want to get a better idea of what is in and what is happening with our oceans. This documentary shows a plethora of species and their special behavioral patterns that may not be known that they do to the regular everyday human. These patterns shown show spectacular brilliance in certain species that could be lost if we do not help prevent the continuous poisoning of our oceans through waste and pollution.

This documentary includes the behavior patterns of dolphins and also their intelligence in thorough detail. It shows how the porpoises use anemones and other plants as a personal way of protecting themselves from infection with the special antibodies in the anemones. It also shows many other animals and how they survive through their special patterns of migration and ways of predation that are very fascinating. The documentary shows how orcas temporarily stun groups of fish by their violent tail flaps that stun the fish long enough for them to be eaten without trouble. It also does not only focus on the animals in the ocean, it also shows coastal birds like the wandering albatross. These birds are the largest of any living bird of the present day, and because of the overfishing of seas, the albatross has to work much harder than before to find food for themselves and for their offspring so that they can continue to be a species on this planet. They may spend up to a year continuously looking food for themselves and also ingest plastics which are poisons to their diets. This is a continuous problem and will continue to be a problem if we do not step up as humans to fix our planet.

The filmmakers who produced this documentary are definitely trying to push a conservationist agenda to the audience, and doing so in a way that shows the beauty of our earth and why we should work harder to fix these issues. Possible biases in this documentary could be that the filmmakers did not show any positives that are going on in our economic world today, and focused primarily on making the film about how we have not been doing our jobs recently and how we can improve our earthly situation, rather than show positive ways that we have already been working on bettering our world. All in all, I very much enjoyed this documentary and it was displayed in a way that was more fascinating rather than a bore to watch, and I believe that this documentary could be shown to many other audiences that would say the same thing. This film made me think much harder about conservation, and also made me think much more deeply about just how fascinating our earth really is, and why we should work much harder to sustain it and have this beauty be able to be seen by future generations.