The Last Male on Earth (2019)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 75 minuten
Alternative title: Last Male Standing
Country:
Netherlands / Germany
Directed by: Floor van der Meulen
IMDb score:
6,9 (101)
Releasedate: 14 May 2019
The Last Male on Earth plot
A year ago, the last male northern white rhinoceros, named Sudan, died in Kenya. In the years before his death, he was anything but alone. He was guarded day and night by armed rangers and lovingly fed and petted by his regular keepers. Journalists and tourists from all over the world stopped by to catch another glimpse of him. And still scientists are determined to perpetuate his species with the sperm that will be stored in European nitrogen tanks for at least 3,000 years.
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
Very disappointing because meaningless documentary. It is about Sudan, the only remaining male northern white rhino after human poaching - the horns of a rhino fetch about a million dollars in Asia - which means the species is on the verge of extinction. Because of the charismatic appearance of the rhino (an enormous animal), Sudan symbolizes how we are working to bring about a mass extinction on Earth, with which charisma Sudan also attracts many visitors, with whom I think it can then be cared for and monitored. are paid (as many as 200 people work for the preservation of Sudan). The (activist) message of the film is: if we don't even care that Sudan dies, then the other animals that are threatened with extinction have no chance at all.
So far so good, but the documentary provides virtually no information and only shows us images of how tourists come to pet Sudan and how the guards receive military training. The question is repeatedly asked why we should actually preserve the northern white rhino, but there is no clear answer. I can't make anything out of it other than that the filmmaker read about Sudan, decided that it was a good subject for a documentary, but when he arrived there it turned out that there was nothing interesting to report. To make matters worse, we are also being fooled: at the end it turns out that it doesn't matter that Sudan dies because we have his sperm so there is hope that we can use artificial insemination to kill the two female northern white rhinos, which apparently still exist, can be impregnated to ensure the survival of the species (I think Sudan was too old to be able to mate anymore, but as mentioned, the documentary is seriously lacking in providing relevant information).
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Well, this documentary does everything the reservation does. Setting up a capitalist system to draw attention to the white rhino and its survival. To make people aware of the extinction of animals that is caused or better accelerated by humans. Fine, but I also found it not very interesting and mainly very boring.
Animals are dying out, it's just a shame that this process is being accelerated by humans. Do not get me wrong. Humanity should take responsibility for the actions they commit and do everything in their power to turn the tide. But on a cinematic level I can't do much with this. And neither in terms of content. A bit moralizing also to save its survival from the rhino's perspective. Ipim above puts it perfectly.
I had a different documentary in mind. Shame ...
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