The New World

The New World

Man has always lived in nature. Nature is the source for everything that is man. Nature provides, entrusts, endures, but only as man will allow it to. In the movie, “The New World”, the director does a phenomenal job portraying the coherence of civilization and nature, as well as the incoherencies of the two. Was nature ever meant to be manipulated by man? Or was nature meant to be respected and kept pure without the hand of man? After seeing this film, I believe that nature and civilization are two extremely important parts of the world and with nature, civilization would cease to exist.

To begin with, the film showed a drastic difference between how the naturals lived with nature and how the Europeans lived with nature. For example, the Naturals treated nature like their mother who gave them everything they needed to live. They treated nature with utmost respect and dignity. While the Europeans treated nature simply as a resource and had no respect for nature or the Naturals. The director showed the drastic differences between the two people in showing how the Naturals thrived in their environment, while the Europeans struggled for dear life in their fort with no food or any knowledge of how to work the land. I think the director was trying to show how civilization can abuse nature and take it for granted. This is obvious in today’s world with most of nature turned into grand cities and highways. The Naturals felt that the Europeans were so unnatural in how they dressed, talked, and even lived. The Naturals lived a simple life, they knew how to live off the land and respected and nature for providing such bountiful resources.

Probably the greatest aspect of this film was the cinematography. For instance, in certain shots there was clear evidence that the director put these shots in to convey a message. In one particular scene, one of the naturals was in the garden in Britain and was astonished by how the plants and trees were groomed and cut....