stories to tell

Carmine 2022-01-15 08:01:27

In addition to the unique creatures and scenery of Antarctica, this film is more concerned with what each individual person is doing and the story they experienced came to Antarctica. I think it is these stories that make this film more moving.

how did he/she end up in this place?


The philosopher driving a forklift said:
"I think that its a logical place to find each other because this place works almost as a natural selection for people that have this intention to jump off the margin of the map, and we all meet here where all the lines of the map converge.

I think there is a fair amount of the population here which are full time travellers and part time workers, these are the professional dreamers. Through them the great cosmic dreams come into fruition. Because the universe dreams through our dreams, and I think that there is many different ways for the reality to bring itself forward, and dreaming is definitely one of these ways. "The

director's narration said:
"Those few who have experienced the world under the frozen sky often speak of it as going down into the cathedral."

The linguist
who takes care of the greenhouse said: "if you take everybody who's not tied down, they all sort of fall down to the bottom of the planet. We all at loose ends and here we are together. PhDs washing dishes and, linguists on a continent with no language ... "

there are mountains running towards the penguins to die
even if people caught him and bought him back to the colony, he would immediately head right back for the mountains

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Encounters at the End of the World quotes

  • Werner Herzog: It occurred to me that in the time that we spent with him in the greenhouse possibly three or four languages have died. In our efforts to preserve endangered species we seem to overlook something equally important. To me, it's a sign of a deeply disturbed civilization, where tree-huggers and whale-huggers in their weirdness are acceptable, while no one embraces the last speakers of a language.

  • Werner Herzog: For me, the best description of hunger is the description of bread. A poet said that once I think. For me, the best description of freedom is what you have in front of you. You're travelling a lot.