Werner Herzog's documentary was sold out when it premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, with an IMDB rating of 8.4 ("Microcosm" was only 7.9). I think friends who love Haruki Murakami will definitely have the cover of "The End of the World and Grim Wonderland" in their minds.
"The National Science Foundation invited me to Antarctica, and I've decided, I won't make another penguin movie, and I tell them: My question about nature is something else. Why, humans always use masks or something To cover up his identity..." Different from Jacques Behan's purely natural perspective, this documentary, apart from the natural scenery, is more of a reaction to the state of the staff at McMurdo Antarctic Station, and Reflections on nature and life.
The McMurdo Antarctic Station has a population of 1,000 people in summer. There are scientists in various fields, staff members, and travelers. They abandon their superior jobs, abandon the noisy city, and abandon modern life. Change begins with choice, choice decides change, choice to change life, choice to change destiny, choice to change life, to come to the "end of the world" far from "modern civilization" and without night is their choice. The purpose of their coming here is to be able to change themselves, or to realize another true self. LP said that it was not "normal people" who could stay there, and indeed, little McMurdo gathered all kinds of dreamers, who dared to take risks and lived for their dreams.
Great seals and baby seals lay lazily on the ice to bask in the sun. They don't have to worry about being late in traffic jams, stock drops, or credit card overdrafts... A trace of envy crossed my heart, maybe in such a place far away from the mainland Make them so docile, not afraid of humans and not aggressive. Because of this film, for the first time I paid attention to the sound of the seals, which is a bit like electronic music made by synthesizers, hollow, ethereal, and dreamy, just like a scientist said that they sound like "Pink Floyd" music.
Through the camera, we can see another kind of ocean world under the thick ice, ethereal and deep, like a dream, like space, you want to see farther, but you can only see around you, you want to get out of here, but always endless.
"Do penguins go crazy too?" the director asked Dr. Ianley, to which he replied: "I've never seen a penguin hit its head against a rock, but they do get lost, they go where they shouldn't be. Even if he grabs it and takes it back to its habitat, it will immediately turn around and head towards the mountains.” In the snow in the shot, a group of penguins are walking towards the seaside, leaving two penguins left Standing hesitantly, one of them walked towards the habitat, the other continued to hesitate for a while, and walked towards the mountains in the other direction... Then--"A penguin that is disoriented or mad like this, The diving camp that appeared in Newport is 80 kilometers away from where it should go. The principle of human beings is not to interfere or stop the penguin, but to stand quietly and let it continue. Going deep, it still has 5,000 kilometers to go, and it will eventually die." That direction meant death to him, but the penguin ran as always, and the simple and honest body could not hide that share. Eager, like a pious and tragic pilgrim. Seeing this scene, I do not know whether it is sad or moved, LP said that maybe it was not lost or "crazy", maybe it is an alternative penguin, wanting to go to the "end of the world" where the same kind has never been and is unwilling to go. ", this is a penguin's choice and dream, and this is also a penguin's persistence and firmness.
"For this and many other reasons, our existence on earth is not sustainable, technological civilization has made human beings particularly vulnerable, there is much talk about climate change in the scientific community, and many scientists believe that the end of mankind on earth will inevitably Arrival, human existence is part of a series of endless catastrophe, the extinction of dinosaurs is just one of them, we seem to be next, when we disappear, what will happen in the future thousands of years? Will there be alien archaeology Come home...trying to find out what we're doing in Antarctica?"
There was a wonderful saying by an American, a philosopher named Aaron Watts, who said that it is through our eyes that the universe understands itself; it is through our ears that the universe hears itself The sound of harmony, we are witnesses to the universe through which we perceive our own glory and splendor. (Throughing our eyes, the universe perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its cosmic harmonies.
We are the witness through which the universe becomes consious of its glory, of its magnificence.)
Repeatedly in the film, the South Pole is the A boring and boring world, "I" did not want to come here, but because of the existence of people, it is complicated and vivid, and because of human research, Antarctica is understood by people, and we can see it The surging ice layer, the wonderful and wonderful world under the ice layer, the seals basking in the sun and the lost penguins on the ice layer, they were like all the existences we didn't know existed, but because of the "witness of the universe" people", their beauty was discovered. It is a pity that the "witnesses" not only witness, but also intervene. The research discovery itself is a kind of destruction, and the universe is showing its glory at the expense of this.
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