"Paradis de rouille" focuses on man-made buildings and man-made machines (such as tanks, war ships, passenger ships, airplanes,..) abandoned and left to rust. It's an informative and well-written series which visits sites all over the world. Among the topics treated : the environmental impact of wrecks, the high cost of pollution, the wasteful habits of homo sapiens, the way in which nature tries to reclaim its rights, the eerie beauty of decay and the romantic liking for ruins.
The series contains memorable images, such as timid wild animals seeking protection against hunters within old war machines. Here you've got a variety of parables writing themselves.
Watch the sequence about the disappearance of the Aral sea closely, and note the sight of fishing ships turning to rust in the middle of a dry steppe. With climate change progressing the way it does, this might very well be where we all end up in half a century's time...
The series contains memorable images, such as timid wild animals seeking protection against hunters within old war machines. Here you've got a variety of parables writing themselves.
Watch the sequence about the disappearance of the Aral sea closely, and note the sight of fishing ships turning to rust in the middle of a dry steppe. With climate change progressing the way it does, this might very well be where we all end up in half a century's time...