"They call me the Selfish Ape; soon you’ll know why. I’m the primate we all unknowingly carry inside.
I belong to the most successful tribe that ever existed. But I am desperate; something has gone awry. I’m going to show you how I got to this point: It all started many, many years ago…
This is oldest story in the World. The war that made not only us primates what we are… but all other animals as well. Our lineage evolved out there, in a dangerous world in which only the winners are capable of surviving.
Some families acquired fangs, others acquired amazing adaptations that enabled them to prosper in the most inhospitable places on the planet. These fierce clashes made us learn; they shaped us in the only law we have become the true masters of.
To compete, to eat, to destroy.
From a caste of vegetarian primates, we had to learn to kill, and thus we became carnivores.
But our tree-dwelling past shaped us forever.
Is it possible that the Tribe of the Tie is favoring the failure of the best over the mediocre?
Many scientists assure this: there is a strong tendency to try to destroy anyone who stands out. When a true genius arrives in our midst, he or she can be recognized because of one common behavior pattern: all mediocre members conspire against them.
Some doctors has described this as AIM: Active Inoperative Mediocrity Syndrome; people whose objective it is to annihilate the advance of a brilliant person.
If it is true that this is happening, everything makes sense. The Tribe of the Tie has inverted the natural order of things: changing natural selection, which prized the most prepared, for social selection, which gives the power to the worst.
We’re out of control as a species".
(Abstract of the script of the documentary film The Tribe of the Suit, of the trilogy THE SELFISH APE, copyright F.L-MIRONES. SGAE)
Ultimatuna
The giant tuna is the most powerful fish in the oceans and probably the animal that has influenced the History of Civilization the most.
These hot-blooded animals, which can weigh up to one thousand kilograms, travel through the Atlantic Ocean by the hundreds as they carry out the most titanic undertaking in all of marine life. Just a few people know why the influence of this fish has helped determine the history of Humanity: The Red Tuna helped found as well as bring down empires simply because its macerated meat was the only protein available to feed Roman and Greek legions.
Nevertheless, the “Great Red” has a weak point, as it is forced to travel into two very dangerous places to reproduce. One of these areas is the Gulf of Mexico and the other the Mediterranean Sea. In the former, the oil spillage is jeopardizing the future of our protagonist, and in the latter, this disaster is just beginning to occur.
Besides oil, the tuna has an even bigger enemy; SUSHI, the quintessential Japanese dish. The best tuna in the world can sell for as much as 176.000 dolars for just one specimen in Tokyo.
This high price has caused the Tuna War to escalate and has pitted fishermen against ecologists in a long-standing controversy.For the first time in documentary history, we have been able to shoot the reproductive orgy of the tuna in the dark waters of the Mediterranean night. Hundreds of red tunas spreading out eggs and sperm into a huge white cloud in a secret place recently discovered by fishermen.
The GREAT RED is about to tell us its story in the first person.
Written and Directed by: Fernando López-Mirones
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