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‘Every Little Thing’ Review: Tiny Hummingbirds Carry Big Lessons in Nature-Meets-Nurture Documentary
Filmmaker Sally Aitken observes Terry Masear’s efforts to rehabilitate wounded hummingbirds, featuring stunning slow-motion footage of the creatures.
Since 2008, hummingbird sage Terry Masear has run a hotline, answering the calls of strangers who find the iridescently feathered, delicate, surprisingly bold birds wounded or unconscious in their pools, on roadways, laying beneath trees. As captivating as the documentary’s slow-motion images are (stunning wildlife photography by Ann Johnson Prum), hummingbird lovers know that there is something equally if not more magnificent in the speed of their flight, the electric click and whirr that signals their nearness. Masear says philosophically, “Life is a series of metaphors stacked up on each other.” Yet, she and her director (maker of “Playing With Sharks,” another documentary featuring a female protagonist) know there are ways to learn from animals that don’t fall back on easy anthropomorphizing.
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