"For many people, Cousteau’s documentary offered a first look at the wonders of life down below. But in the process, it also illustrated a pretty damning (if inadvertent) point: You can’t take humans anywhere."
This article examines Cousteau's documentary The Silent World, which was the first documentary to win the Palme D'Or, the highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In doing so, the author sheds a critical light on Cousteau's relationship with the ocean and its species.
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