Should you watch Microcosmos?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Microcosmos
Documentary · 1996
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
The sides of Microcosmos
- Insects filmed up close in a French meadow
- A beetle pushing its dung ball uphill
- A water spider living in an air bubble
Microcosmos is good for you if…
- you like watching a meadow and a pond from an insect's height.
- you like seeing a mosquito hatch or a caterpillar line as if for the first time.
- you love close-ups, slow motion and time-lapse that turn bugs into giants.
Microcosmos is bad for you if…
- you need a story that moves, and eighty minutes of grass and ladybugs feels slow to you.
- you want words, and you get almost none here.
About: nature · the small world · patience
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