More Than Honey
Director: Markus Imhoof
Year Released: 2012
Rating: 2.0
Imhoof documents the use and 'care' of honeybees around the world and explores why bees have been dying off: it turns out it's from stress, harmful chemicals, ugly little mites and from our making 'angry' creatures more docile over time (bring back the pissed-off, ferocious killer bees!). Aside from some glorious up-close-and-personal views of the bees in action, making that honey and flying around in their specific patterns, this manages to be efficient and informative (read: pleasantly dull) without being artistically fulfilling or urgent: like a National Geographic special (sorry, but that is a close comparison), it takes a journalistic approach to its subject. For the longest time, it was reported that cell phones were killing bees (thereby giving me another reason to hate cell phones) but as it turns out, cell phones are only killing our privacy.
