Chasing Ice 2012 123movies

Watch: Chasing Ice 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – ‘National Geographic’ photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In ‘Chasing Ice,’ we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. Balog’s hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Traveling with a young team of adventurers by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story in human history. As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramp up around the world, ‘Chasing Ice’ depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to gather evidence and deliver hope to our carbon-powered planet.
Plot: When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 8,700
	96% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 141 Popularity: 8.192 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Beautifully Photographed Film which is more Emotional than Scientific
I enjoyed seeing Chasing Ice on the opening night of Austin’s SXSW Film Festival, but I was also a bit disappointed by it. The film only partly delivers on its great promise, because it can’t quite figure out whether it’s a national geographic-style nature documentary, a personal adventure story or an environmental advocacy film. In the end, it tries to do all of these things and doesn’t quite do any of them as well as it could. Chasing Ice is at its best when it documents Extreme Ice Survey’s (EIS) beautiful photography of the melting glaciers perhaps better than anyone has done before. While the photography delivers an emotional punch it can’t really speak for itself. The scientific evidence requires a lot more explanation than they provide. The film starts out with clips of talking heads criticizing climate change, but they never fully answer the criticism and never fully defend the case that climate change is man-made, dangerous, and in need of an immediate global action to remedy. Nor do they provide any particular direction for what the viewer can do either personally or politically to address the problem.

Instead they spend way too much telling their own story. They delve into the technical difficulties of mounting cameras to photograph distant glaciers over a period of years, the complexities of hiking to these locations, the personal danger and discomfort they had to endure, and most peculiarly the physical problems that lead photographer James Balog experienced with his knee problems and surgeries. All these personal stories are interesting to a point, but distract from scientific case that they need to make. This should be a scientific and environmental story not a personal narrative. The powerful case that the beautiful photography makes is undermined, by poorly conceived film narrative. The average viewer needs a lot better understanding of what the melting of the glaciers means and what sort of affect this will have on their daily life in the near future. A better narrative device might have been to show the melting ice of the glaciers and then film the rising sea level in other parts of the world. Some reports have suggested that the Maldives Islands might soon be underwater. Showing where the water from the melting glaciers is ending up could have proved to be a much more powerful narrative device. I wish they had done a better job at telling an important scientific story with deep political and moral significance for the planet.

During the Q&A after the film, Balog argued that this isn’t a political problem, that it is a universal problem. It may be a universal problem, but its solution requires collective political action that is based on science not emotion. They are naive if they are unwilling to engage the powerful political debate that is preventing progress on this issue.

547th Review: Chilling
Chasing Ice is simply one of the best documentaries of the year. It shows how effort, dedication, and commitment can produce images that can justify change in global policy and public perception.

It’s subject, the retreat of glacial ice due to climate change, is nothing new, but this is the story of one man’s ability to singlemindedly pursue the evidence with a dedicated team: James Balog is a man with a mission.

Beautifully shot with mesmerizing ice images, and furthermore, a tale of real human endeavor this is a documentary that rewards the viewer beyond education or expectation – I would say warmly recommends, but perhaps, chilling is more appropriate here.

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Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 15 min (75 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 1328467
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Documentary, Biography
Director Jeff Orlowski-Yang
Writer Mark Monroe
Actors James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 5 nominations total
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