Life In Color Docuseries Review: A marveleous celebration of the colourful natural world

David Attenborough’s latest Netflix docuseries is awe-inspiring and breathtaking as it tells the story of how colour is used in the natural world

How do we ‘use’ colour? In our attires, to look a specific way. Also, to identify the different objects we come across. We even tell stories through colours — a visual artist uses colour to bring life to rectangular frames and express themself. Some people use the shades of the skin to identify a race and exploit others. In our self-indulgence as humans, it becomes necessary to remember that we are not alone on this world. We share residence with more than eight billion species on our planet, who also have colour receptors, through which they are exposed to unknown worlds that humans are blind to.

David Attenborough, in his new Netflix documentary Life In Color, takes us across the planet, through a multitude of terrains, to tell us how mammals, birds, aquatic animals, reptiles, insects, and flowers use colour in an ecosystem that manipulates the working of colour. The first reveal is that in most cases, the way colours are used is not much different from the examples above on how we use colour.

The first of the three episodes, titled Seeing in Colour, is straightforward. As the name suggests, it shows….

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https://www.cinemaexpress.com/reviews/english/2021/apr/25/life-in-color-docu-series-review-a-marveleous-celebration-of-the-colourful-natural-world-24136.html