Ocean Souls

A visually stunning and emotianally packed whale documentary, touching on many different species. Particularly in the imagery, I don´t think I´ve seen this many species in one doc before?

Its emphasis is as much -or perhaps more- on making a moral as well as emotional call to humanity, as it is about the scientific facts about whales. For the most part it manages a nice balance between pathos and science. However, sometimes I found the tone slightly too emphatic and the facts delivered being a little too haphazard and unsubstantiated. As an example: It is one thing to say that cetaeceans have a much greater capacity of empathy than formerly given credit for, it is a completely different thing to say that they have greater empathy than humans. How is empathy quantified and measured here, or even quantifiable at all? Empathy isn´t a contest anyway, and why must everything always be measured against man? I sympathize 100% with their intentions though!

A film with a big heart, a beautiful exterior, some science and a lot of sweet observations/anecdotes on or off camera.