I've recently had a new addition to my family with my brother and his wife having a baby. In honour of the event I went to see this observational documentary.
This film is much like a nature documentary where we spend the time watching animals in their natural environment. In this case it is babies during their first year of life. There is no narration which is good as we just get to see these babies perform without any commentary. We only get titles telling us where they are from. To some this would seem a boring film but because the makers have obviously spent a whole year with their subjects they can only show the best possible footage. Which makes it quite fascinating. The one thing I found interesting was how similar the behaviour of the babies was. Despite their different cultural backgrounds and countries they come from the babies essentially do much the same things. Parents seem to look after them the same as well. Naturally the film is full of cute moments and some very funny sequences. Especially those involving animals.
See why babies are the same the world over. Possibly some more different styles of child rearing would have helped but still very fascinating.
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