very good documentary

Elenor 2022-04-20 09:01:57

It has always been believed that the authenticity of documentaries is more likely to touch people's hearts, and compared with those documentaries with people as the main subject, documentaries shooting animals and plants are more likely to be produced because of their greater reduction and objectivity to reality. A sense of resonance, the success of "Emperor Penguin Diary" does not know how many people will be driven to shoot documentaries, at least the director of this film was somewhat influenced by the success of "Migrating Birds" and started the creation of this film.

In the past, the penguins in my heart seemed to be synonymous with cute and clumsy, with an uneven body and clumsy footsteps. The penguins I saw in the movie were really a bit like Chaplin, the funny master, when you watched them swaying towards you. You're sure to smile knowingly when you come and suddenly get down on the snow from time to time, even if that's all the movie does, it's half done. But this film does not simply rely on the penguin's antics to attract the audience's attention. What the director wants to discover is the inhuman quality of penguins, a noble quality that fights with nature and even sacrifices life for survival and reproduction. , although they will be so sad because of their own children's departure that they will selfishly snatch children of the same kind, but they also have emotions, and people can do this, not to mention animals.

The greatness of the emperor penguin is that it travels thousands of miles from the north to the south for the birth of offspring without being affected by the environment. After laying eggs in the south, the female penguin has to go back to the south to find food, while the male penguin insists on the severe cold weather. Waiting for the birth of the little penguin, at this time, on the one hand, the female penguin sacrificed everything for food until she was killed by the monster in the water, and on the other hand, the male penguin suffered from cold and hunger when the weather changed. The great maternal and paternal love that moved us, when we saw that some penguins disappeared into the endless snow because of their unfortunate fall behind, when we saw some little penguins were taken away by the cold at birth When we were alive, when we saw that the male penguin who lost the little penguin was still hitting the body of the little penguin with the corner of his mouth, we felt indescribable pain in our hearts. Life could disappear like this and never return.

And that means that when the evil eagle took away a little penguin, we know that it is not only in the human world, but in nature that we will encounter strong enemies all the time. When we are unable to protect ourselves, it is life. But when we remembered that the little penguin was still wriggling in the snow and snuggling in the arms of our relatives, this moment is gone, we can't help but cry, even weeping.

The director did not intend to make the audience in the cinema suffer more sadness, so many cruel scenes were cut out and replaced by Emilie Simon's silent music, sometimes sad, sometimes happy, and the dubbing of the virtual male princess is that Beautiful and moving, the movie elements play a permanent charm at this moment, the truth of the documentary plus the perfect use of the movie elements, a masterpiece was born like this, I like such serious and exquisite movies very much, I recommend it to all lovers Movie friends.

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March of the Penguins quotes

  • Narrator: [from trailer] There is a mysterious ritual that dates back thousands of years. No living creature has survived it except the penguin. They have wings but cannot fly. They're birds that think they're fish. And every year, they embark on a nearly impossible journey to find a mate. For twenty days and twenty nights the emperor penguin will march to a place so extreme it supports no other life. In the harshest place on Earth loves finds a way. This is the incredible true story of a family's journey to bring life into the world: March of the Penguins.

  • penguin: Wwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!