Il mondo senza di noi

This documentary really puts things into perspective by showing a fascinating scenario in which humans disappear. It goes through the timeline of how our ephemeral civilisation crumbles away one piece at a time. It wasn't quite as dramatic as its competitor After Us, which contradicts it in the area of nuclear power plants, but it's still interesting.

You can see this coming a mile away in the TV guide and, even when I watched it hoping for more, it did just what it suggested it would. There are lots of "what if" films out there and some of them are genuinely interesting and informative, however Life After People is not one of them. Instead it goes down the road of so many of them and just focuses on the special effects of the "what if" rather than the substance. This approach makes for a good 30 minute long programme, I'll give you that, but here the idea is stretched out to 90 minutes, with plenty of advert breaks to help you along.

The effects are pretty good though; not Hollywood standards by any means but for the minute they are pretty good and reasonably imaginative. It doesn't help to be shown the same shots over and over again though because it does make the viewer realise just how much padding there is throughout. The experts are all on hand to provide justification and explanation but none of them can get passed the problem that it is not that interesting a question in the first place due to its lack of relevance. They all take about how quickly nature will come back in etc but nobody can make it important or interesting beyond the "oh, that's nice" level of interest. I know there is debate about how quickly things would really happen versus what was said in this film but for me the bigger thing to work out is why it manages to make me care so little? Life after People provides effect shots of buildings falling and cities overgrown. As such it is already competing with Hollywood sci-fi's with much bigger budgets to play with. It does an OK job with this but has nowhere near enough to show or talk about to fill even half of the running time and just gets repetitive and dull long before it is over. A shame really, because it would be a better film had the pressure not been on to fill space as much as possible whether the film merited it or not.

Viruses can only parasitize their host until they kill it. In doing so, they will also kill themselves. However, the Earth is a robust organism; it has recovered from meteorite bombardment, endured several ice ages, and survived five mass extinctions. It will also recover from this, the sixth, caused by a species, which will take with it the wildlife and most of the animals that exist today. This documentary theorizes what would happen if people vaporized out of nowhere. It does not consider the causes that would lead to such an event. When that happens, for several thousand years, it will not look as nice (green and full of life) as it is presented in this series.

I watched it when it first aired and It was really interesting and fairly awesome. I think the entire thing kind of reinforces my not being religious. I mean 10,000 years after we all die all of our buildings fall down, all of our paper rots away, and the entire place is all grass again. Plus, from the documentary, if you took the entire history of planet Earth and made it into a 24 hour day humans would only make up 30 seconds of that day. Our entire human existence is 30 seconds out of a full 24 hour day yet the world is here for us and made for us? Please.

We're just not that special or important. Probably the creatures with the highest intelligence that will ever walk the face of the planet but that's about it. The world wasn't designed for us, we're just here.

After Cable TV allowed many kinds of channels driven to all ages and so wide range of entertainments, History, Discovery and Natgeo has been searching for most craziest matters ever had imagined, then appears a offbeat subject to fill the program schedule, this first episode around 90 minutes was base from an upcoming series, this interesting subject deserves to think about it, how would be the world if all mankind disappeared somehow, it's doesn't matter at all, but about the Cities, the buildings, the bridges, the subways, anyway all over the world, straight up l suppose apart how bizarre it could be, this is true and exciting possibility to discuss even if it faces as rarely possible to happen in near future, indeed a valuable Doc!!

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First watch: 2016 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5