The life and times of Jane Goodall...who started by watching chimps and in the 80's switched to trying to awake the chumps fouling this nest we call earth. Extremely well done doc with beautiful images, use of color, music and a truly inspirational subject. She emerges as a secular saint and like all saints features a tragic flaw...an estranged son who scorned her world, her values and dove headlong into the swamp of commercial exploitation.
She stands, like Nelson Mandela, above the mass of humanity, exhorting others to do a little better before it's too late. Of course we all know she won't change the direction of the great engine racing us toward disaster but it makes us feel a bit better about ourselves to know that such a person exists.
First rate work.
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