The Botany of Desire is a new documentary that explores the history and evolution of some most common plants today: apple, potato, tulip and cannabis. Michael Pollan, the director, tells the story from the plant’s point of view and explores how we, humans, helped these plants to evolve and succeed. This exceptionally well done documentary presents some interesting facts from the plant’s history and science. The author connects these most popular plants with our drives and desires and assigns each one to a specific plant which managed to dominate it. From this documentary you will learn that:
Apple is the source of sweetness and that it comes from Kazakhstan, its place of origin. Apples have been celebrated and then blamed for many of the human falls. They have been at the center of prohibition and have helped the human species to survive where food supply is scarce.
Potato is the source of power struggle with nature, our desire to control nature. Tangled up in mono culture practices, human cultures continue to learn their lessons, generation after generation, experiencing consequences of what happens if only one kind of potato is grown.
Cannabis is the source of intoxication and our desire to alter the human mind. Did you know that what people smoke are sexually frustrated female plants with gooey crystals containing the most THC? How about the science of “forgetting”? The movie takes an elaborate scientific approach to explain how cannabis managed to stay popular for so many years in so many cultures despite repression and prohibition.
Finally, tulip has made a remarkable journey in its evolution as a plant. Tulip mania had once dominated Holland. Because of tulip obsession, some families have lost everything, economy crashed and some rulers have lost their throne.
Celebrating bio-diversity is at the heart of this movie. It is greatly educational as it is entertaining.
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Very educative. I really loved the nature, all part of it. In fact, when I was still a child, my ambition is to be a environmentalist someday or a botanist, anything related to plants.