I first marked this documentary and wanted to watch it in January 2016, and I finally finished watching it after 5 years. I should have been attracted by the title of this literary and artistic film at first, so I just marked one and wanted to watch it. Later, I read a passage on Weibo, saying that there was a depressed penguin in Antarctica, turning away from the sea and walking towards the mountains alone, even if it would cost him his life. Recently, I often think of this penguin running towards the mountains, so I finished watching this documentary.
The documentary is actually about the daily life of the Antarctic scientific expedition team, which is very relevant. The Antarctic scenery in the lens is also very rich, including glaciers, volcanoes, and the underwater world. Everyone in the scientific expedition team seems to have a wonderful past, and one of them is a female scientist who talks about her adventures in Africa. In the past, I might envy them for their rich life experience. After all, when they first entered the school, the instructor asked us to make a wish for the university for four years. What I wrote was "Walk through thousands of rivers and mountains".
Before entering the university, it was a period of time when I had the highest degree of self-recognition. At that time, I went to the "travel" post, and watched the stories of backpackers traveling around; watching "The Story of Double Chen", I thought it was cool for the author to go to Southeast Asia by himself. It was also at that time that I learned about the Youth Hostel from the book, and felt that it was filled with a group of cool young people. Later, I lived there once when I went to Nanjing to play; although it is not disappointing, how can I say it? It feels a bit like The male lead in "Spiritual Journey" feels stunned after the performance, but it's more like "I thought there would be more" when the mother said when she was packing things in "Boyhood".
I thought there would be more, but in fact no. If I said that the amount of movie viewing has had any impact on me, it may be that I feel more and more: the world is so big, in fact, it is the same everywhere.
I also saw it on Weibo, saying that everyone has a get away complex and wants to get rid of the pressure of daily work and life. Sophomore year, I was fascinated by "Dabbling in the Wilderness", and I felt that a trip to the wilderness would make life different. Later, I joined the school’s Mountain Wilderness Association. They organized scientific expedition hikes during the summer. Of course, I didn’t take part in the expedition that year because I couldn’t climb up. But during the period, I also participated in several hikes and camps in the suburbs of Beijing. Looking back now, I just feel that this experience is different from daily life, and there is nothing particularly memorable.
I actually feel this way: if you want to live in the present, then every day should be equal, and one should not favor one another. So I hate the sense of ritual in life. To put it in a more crude language, it is that every day of life is eating shit, and you can't think that this day is different just because you want to eat chocolate one day.
For me, there is nowhere to escape in life, just like being flooded in a cramped room in "The Moment". So seeing someone "escape" in film and television works, there will be an unspeakable emotion in my heart. Like the brother who chooses to jump at night in "The Sunshine", like Jerome who puts himself in the stove in "The End of the Day", like the male protagonist who walks into the deep sea in "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", or in this documentary Penguins; Although they don’t know what they’ve experienced, they can always empathize to the moment they make a choice. After all, in "Elephants Sitting on the Floor", after seeing the elephants in Manzhouli, what else can we do.
Life is a long river, we all walk on this side of the river; some people choose to leave and walk towards the other side of the river, maybe there are mountains on that side. I still walk on this side of the river, but I often think of this penguin running towards the mountains.
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