Chasing Coral Reflection

Chasing Coral Reflection

This film was one of the most interesting films I have ever watched. It begins with showing all different types of amazing coral and the ecosystem that revolves around it. Then slowly the film introduces the problem, being the coral is dying from the oceans warming. The film really doesn’t point fingers as to what is causing the warming, but it is getting warmer. A man named Richard Verves decides to quit his marketing job and markets the dying coral for the world to see. He creates a team and begins to capture the harsh reality we live in; our coral is dying at an extraordinary rate.  The Great Barrier Reef is their main subject to analyze. In 2016 it lost nearly one third of its coral, so there was plenty of evidence to film. The team would go out and film the reef each day in the same spot in order to make a time-lapse. The finished product is devastating. The coral over just a few months goes from an amazing color to a bleached white. Then as it continues to die, algae begins to grow on it and the coral disappears. The entire process is awful to watch and really makes a point that this needs to be stopped.