In the lonely land of Antarctica, time has passed, the appearance of the earth has changed hundreds of times, and penguins have always been here, as if they have become a group of sentinels here. Their story also begins and continues on this glacier. At the beginning of the film, in the endless white world, a black penguin shoots out of the water from a hole in the glacier, tearing apart the monochromatic world. This long-standing life has brought life to the glacier. Above the glacier, there is only this kind of life left.
And life has to go on endlessly from generation to generation, so they start to migrate, migrate to the south to give birth to life, where there is the safest environment but the coldest. I always thought ignorantly that penguins are not afraid of cold, but in fact they are afraid, and they will freeze to death. The country is too vast for them, and they have to traverse the continent, from the northernmost point near the ocean to the southernmost point. The distance of hundreds of kilometers is really long for penguins. They sometimes walk, move one step at a time, and sometimes glide on the bone-piercing glaciers with their snow-white stomachs. Will scold, the scene is funny. You can call penguins graceful or funny when they walk, but you can't help but laugh when they fall.
"On this great day, the third day of the year, when the sun and moon come back to life, our people take action." When all the penguins are assembled, it is their signal to start their journey. In their eyes, this is not so much an adventure as a date. "We had a love date, and we started walking since then, and we have rediscovered the footsteps of nomads... This is the first migration." One by one, this long black team looks like the soldiers of the Red Army back then. The icebergs in Antarctica are solemn and firm. "Icebergs are like a group of nomads, sleeping in winter, sometimes we will do some endless detours, in order to bypass these sleeping giants, but in ancient memory, there will never be a single lost person here. ".
This first migration is definitely the easiest, the most biting cold has not yet arrived, and the most important sense of responsibility has not yet appeared. No matter how the cold rages on the fields here, no matter how strange the gables are, the people marching in groups always come from all sides of the horizon, assembling quickly and walking long distances, "Finally one morning our people have arrived At the end of the journey, this is the stone gate that verifies our birth, at the beginning of time", and this place is called "Omerk".
"This is the place, Omerk, this is where we meet again, where life is given every year, there is no better place, the granite walls of the island protect us, and beneath our feet the glaciers never Concession to summer's return." Arrived, arrived, the source of life, so a pair of couples began to sing, "Omerke is flying the song of love, in our home, we get married every year, and there is only one partner in our life". The penguin's single-mindedness in love may be worth learning from human beings. It is necessary to know that outside these days, they do not live together. I have always wondered, every penguin looks the same, how do they identify each other? It's the voice, and they can clearly recognize the voice of their partner.
"The dance of our wedding will open the big ballroom of winter", a song sounded above Omerk, "The Cold World": "You don't open the door for me, the door to your cold world, the door to your white world, I just want to stare, outside this snow field, until we are alone again, we belong to this cold world. When the snow and ice begin to melt and merge into the ocean, you will see how beautiful we are." In this 9 For months, they were all dancers, they lost themselves and found themselves again. At this time, the film ignores the happy dancing penguin group, and only pays attention to the lonely shadow of a penguin in the sunset. "Secret group power, loneliness has been convicted."
The wind and snow are getting more and more violent and the weather is getting colder and colder. After the love dance is over, the couples begin to brew their lives. "Love has been said, love has been done, serenity surrounds us, the promise of life is placed in the warm water in our belly", "The moon is passing, we are waiting, and at the third moon, the last hour will come now", a beautiful egg, with a white shell like snow, but no more beautiful than the life brewing inside. In the face of the harsh winter, this egg of life must be well protected, protected on the feet of the mother penguin and wrapped under the warm abdomen. "From this moment on, each of our actions has only one purpose, which is to survive." A few days after the egg appeared, the mother penguin was exhausted for the hatching of her life. She had to return to the sea as soon as possible to replenish food, for herself and for the baby to be born. Before she left, the only person she could trust was her husband. So the responsibility fell on the shoulders of the father. The fragile egg can only endure freezing for a few seconds, so every parent is undoubtedly nervous when handing off. The camera captures an egg that has been cracked by freezing, with the screams of its parents next to it. For them, the waltz of life ends because it is not round, and it is meaningless to stay here, they can only start again and wander into the ocean. And the exhausted mother penguins are about to start their journey back home.
"I'm going, I'm going to the sea."
"I'm going to stay with our child. I'm going to take good care of him. The high temperature in my abdomen will protect him until you return. Go to the sea and find some rich food. Come back, Especially to come back during feeding time, our little baby is about to be born, we are waiting for you"
This is the first parting of the dancers, "I am so hungry, our food is over there, in this deserted place the other end of the place", near the northernmost point of the ocean.
"We're going to the sea, they're going to stay here", "They're going to go, we're going to wait". They went to look for food, they stayed to take care of the children, in the wind and snow, they formed a black city wall, leaving the warmest belly to the child and the most reliable back to the cold winter. And it was not easy for them, on the way back, "Every winter, we have to keep migrating, it's a cruel irony, we have our backs to the sea, but we are looking for the door to the sea... Beneath the glacier, fish swim in the warm water, and above the glacier, the storm is blowing violently, tormenting the hungry and cold migrants.”
Finally reaching the door to the sea, they couldn't wait to dive in. If penguins walk more funny than graceful, then their figures swimming in the water can definitely be described as graceful, light and elegant, just like other birds flying in the air. Entering the sea means that the table for the most sumptuous dinner has been set. However, the camera switches from the leisurely foraging scene to the other end, and Omerke's parents can only eat some ice and snow to satisfy their hunger. They have not eaten for three months, and they have challenged the harsh winter, standing on the edge of life, some of whom have crossed that invisible line, defeated by hunger and cold. From then on, they slept for a long time, and the ice and snow covered their bodies little by little, and then disappeared. Here, there is more night than day, and the daughters of the night wear their prettiest veils, and they race against the stars and dance to the wind. The fathers shouted the slogan "Cheer up, unyielding people. This Frando dance is about to start, and then we can go to the ends of the earth to pursue the forgotten sunshine", which is the belief in chasing the sunshine and the belief in life. The desire to fulfill their strong sense of responsibility. Against Bitter Winter, they had the upper hand in will, and enough was enough.
A lurking seal bit a mother penguin with lightning speed, "This monster devoured two lives in an instant, this is the trap set by the sea, and this appetizer will never Satisfy his appetite". Before this sense of fear can dissipate, they have to set off to return, otherwise Omerke's little life will starve to death. This is their third migration, this time with a strong sense of mission, because it is a promise to life that cannot be fulfilled. "We were walking and shouting 'Hurry up', they have been born, he can't take it anymore, they need you", so, as an audience, you can see their forcibly accelerated pace.
Over Omerk, after months of blizzards, something gleamed in the sky early one morning, and it turned out that the sun was returning to the earth, our victory over the cold winter. Under the snow-white belly of the fathers, the egg has been broken, you can see a little life is greeting this white world, and a song of life has been played. But where are they? , "Every day in the future, the little babies will come out of their shells, where are they?". The first ray of dawn stimulated the harsh winter, it was angry, crazy, unwilling to leave, the cold became stronger, and even made the wind freeze, so the penguins moved slowly, trying not to expose their stomachs to the cold. middle. Once again they were so powerful that they surprised nature. The little babies have come out of their shells, their hungry cry, "They haven't come back, where are they", forcing the fathers to make a decision, "If they don't come back tonight, we're going to leave them behind. These newborns go back to the sea", who will win? Whether it was life or cold winter, finally, a hoarse cry was withdrawn from the sky above Omok, "We're here", "They're coming", and the whole Omok was excited. At the most critical moment, is this timing coincidence or inevitable? I think it's their mutual trust and sense of responsibility.
"Where is he? Is my son still there? …. It's him, that voice! Ah, my son, you're singing to me"
"You guys persevered!"
"You're finally here in time!"
"Thank you You, and you, your wonderful son born in winter, my little baby"
reunion is short-lived because every second counts for life.
"It's time for me to take care of our son, and you should get out of here as soon as possible, go to the ocean, time is short, time is precious, one step away, we will be separated, one step away, between us There will be 1,000 cold winter days."
"Wait a while and listen to my voice again, child, one day you will recognize me because of my voice". Temporarily relieved father promises wife
"I wish I could promise I'll be back to see you, it's my turn to go, I've exhausted all my strength, and now this journey of peril, hunger, and last, and every year among us A lot of people died on the long journey", I think, that's why there are fewer males than females.
The father leaves, the mother stays behind, and the alternate execution of responsibilities is based on trust. Like the sun, children are getting stronger day by day, but they cannot leave the warmth of their mother's belly. They must become strong enough under the mother's care to be able to move on their own. The snow runs on the glacier like the wind, and the winter will strike the last blow before leaving. Although the cold has lost its power for adults, it does not for young children. "They must be stronger, The time for enlightenment has come”, which is both a test and a grind. However, not every child can stand the test of life and death. You listen, after the cold wind, the music becomes sad and the bass of the cello squeaks. A mother wailed while standing in front of a frozen child's corpse, "All the hard work was shattered by the howling cold wind, they worked so hard to get a child, and life should continue to grow under their feet. For some people , it was unbearable, so they did the most unimaginable act, in the case of insanity, they wanted to take someone else's child", but she failed in the end, no mother would allow her child to be snatched. The meaning of life is infinitely magnified. This absurdity, stemming from the loss of a child, I believe anyone can understand.
Another day, the penguin children saw a group of white belly coming back from a distance, "It's back, the fathers are back, where is my father", the children's voice is always full of longing. Reunited after a long absence, the child has grown up and changed, but it is impossible for a father not to recognize his child's voice.
"It's him, I'm sure it's him"
"It's him, I'm sure it's him", they recognized each other like telepathy, and no change could change the bloodline.
The weather is getting warmer, the family is reunited, and the scene becomes lively again. In the eyes of children, "Adults walk around constantly, they have two sides: white is their full belly coming back, black is empty stomach to go out for food, we, the back is the same as the front, all gray, we always hungry".
It's time to leave, penguins come from the sea and return to the sea to pursue the ancient memory. O'Morke left behind the warmest farewell scene between the couple and the never-failing vow, "On the eve of the last part of our trip, we vowed to come back here next season to dance, get married, and in the next winter." The sea is warm but dangerous, so the little penguins stay in Omerk until they are sufficiently independent. Therefore, the parting of father and son is inevitable, "It's time to leave, my son, the ocean is calling me, just as it will call you soon, run to life, my winter son, run to life".
The dance has ended, the dancers have left their respective sides, the mission has been completed, and they will start their final journey and return to the ocean again. And a few months later, the children of Omerk also responded to the call of the ocean and finally returned to the sea. On that day, they solemnly swore: "One day, one third of the year, this exhilarating day, when the sun and the moon meet again in the sky, we will shoot out of the sea and become again. Travellers, become a new generation of fathers like our fathers, we are back here again, dancing for life, in the cold winter, to extend our lives, we are the kings of travel” …..
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