Kestrel's Eye movie

I thought this movie was an interesting way to portray nature and to see it from an animals point of view. This movie was centered aroud nature and the life of an animal which made it hard to relate to. While this movie was difficult to really enjoy, I think it is a good depiction of what ecological ethics means. It follows the life of Kestrels, a type of bird, and throughout the movie we see what life is like from their eyes. This movie protrays their life as significant, but disconnected from human interaction. The Kestrels are often the observers of human action, living in the creation of humans, such as the church. They have their own world above us that exhibits order. They interact with each other and help each other with food and warmth. The Kestrels have a desire to live and to have companionship. They often look after one another and work together to get what they need.

I think this movie portrays the reverence of all life. The Kestrels hunt for food and desire to live as humans do. They are living beings that can feel pain and satisfaction, and are clearly more than "machines". Often humans view animals, and birds in general, as pests, especially when we find them living in our buildings and making nests or laying eggs. This movie puts into perspective that those places are their homes too, where they raise their young and go to find shelter and warmth. We take away their land and trees, so they have to seek shelter elsewhere, often in what we build since that is what's left. I think this is something that we need to remember before we carlessly destroy nature and older buildings for the sake of recreating.