TheIMAX"CosmicVoyage"filmwasmadeasapublicservicewithsponsorshipbytheSmithsonianAirandSpacemuseum.OnDVD,borrowedfrommylocalpubliclibrary,itplaysatjustover30minuteswithMorganFreemansupplyingapleasingnarrative.AsonewouldexpectfromanIMAXfilm,theimagequalityissuperbandtheDolby5.1soundtrackisverywelldone.Simulatedcosmicexplosionsshakeyourwalls!Thatis,ifyouhaveagoodpoweredsubwooferinyoursystem.Thefilmtakesaveryusefulapproachtoexaminingthesizeoftheuniverse,fromtinysub-atomicparticlestothevastnessofthewholeuniverse.(Fortunately,whenGodcreatedtheUniversehehaddispatchedafewangelswithvideocamerasatdifferentvantagepointssowegettoseeactualfootagefromseveralbillionyearsago.)ThefilmstartsinVenice,wherethediscoveryofthetelescopeoriginated,andusesaone-meterhoopasareferencepoint,thengraduallygoeslargerbypowersof10,e.g.10meters,100,1000,etcuntilwecanseethewholeuniverse.Thenittakestheoppositejourney,goingsmallerbypowersof10untilbeseeinsidesub-atomicparticles.Thestoryiswell-wovenwithbeautifuleffectscreatedespeciallyforthisfilm.Itisentertainingandeducationalatthesametime.Allof"oldsters"canenjoyitforthescientifichistorywearealreadyfamiliarwith,andallthe"youngsters"canenjoyitfortheeducationalsupplementitprovides.Overallamasterfulfilm.Anynumerical"rating"of"CosmicVoyage"ismeaningless.Ifoneislookingforasuperbfilmaboutouruniverseandmoderntheoriesofitsformation,thisoneishardtobeat.KudostoIMAXandtotheAirandSpaceMuseum.肉眼只能看見穹蒼一角。凝視夜空，但見繁星點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，偶爾一顆流星劃破夜空，但你可曾看見恒星死亡前的最后爆發(fā)？瞪視雙手，你或會看見點(diǎn)點(diǎn)塵垢，但你又可曾看見組成皮膚的原子在顫動？因?yàn)檠鄄荒芤?，我們只能縱馳想像，去探索這個(gè)深邃廣闊的宇宙。本片獲第六十九屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳紀(jì)錄短片提名.