Onder het Maaiveld (2022)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 83 minuten / 70 minuten ('Onder het Maaiveld Junior')
Alternative titles: Onder het Maaiveld Junior / Planet Soil / Living Soil
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Mark Verkerk
Stars: Marc van Will
IMDb score:
7,4 (70)
Releasedate: 2 March 2023
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Onder het Maaiveld plot
The film tells the story and the development of an optimistic group of people who set to work on a small piece of land to realize their dream. Marc van Will lives and works in and around a messy yard, close to the big city, where dealing with nature is changing bit by bit. He lives and works in the yard with a number of other colorful characters. We follow their discoveries from the perspective of the micro-level of this yard and from there connect through the soil, the underground life is, with people, events and developments at the macro-level.
Reviews & comments
hvdriel
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- 397 messages
- 357 votes
I always go to see a nature documentary with some hesitation, but it disappeared after a few minutes.
This documentary gives a fascinating view of the ground and its underworld that we always pass so carelessly. Realistic images of earth and insects alternate with images of the enlarged underworld, hypnotic and of a beautiful abstraction, accompanied by a musical score that is at least appropriate.
The viewer is taken seriously and not addressed as a stupid ignorant by the off-screen voice. Unfortunately, the documentary sometimes goes too far in this. Especially when scientists have their say, I regularly dropped out: well-intentioned information, but delivered in an unfriendly manner.
After the end credits we get a few more scenes of lovely people. Feel free to walk away, because they are annoying, detract from the movie experience and add nothing at all.
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
A bunch of yuppies buy a farm with a piece of land in Abcoude, proclaim that they want to damage the ground as little as possible and then cover the ground with cardboard to let the grass die! In the next two years they do a modest variation on the superior The Biggest Little Farm and we see how their vegetable garden grows into a piece of land on which they can naturally grow enough food to live on. In between, we travel to various places where people have found a way to use the available land effectively to improve the quality of life. The title suggests that it mainly concerns the billions of micro-organisms that live 'below ground level', but we do not learn anything new about that. Many organisms are quickly reviewed in the form of a picture and size, because Verkerk exchanged depth for visual delights with a sometimes downright irritating score. The underlying message is good and the segment about a farmer who allowed a land to grow naturally into a forest is hopeful.
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