unable to meet

Francesco 2022-03-20 09:02:30

The documentary is called "Meeting at the End of the World", but after watching it, I believe that people in the world will never meet.

A group of people gathered at the McMurdo research station. They were scholars and scientists in other places, and they also had various logistical jobs here: plumbers, drivers, and farmers. When I saw this, I suddenly felt relieved. : It turns out that everyone is just an ordinary person. This is also the first time that I have personally felt the difference brought about by identity. Maybe I should learn to understand people's roles from another perspective.

People cannot meet because there is no other person who can know one person, and the encounter can only be in the physical sense, remembering Calvino's writing in "Invisible Cities": "Once the image in memory is fixed by words, It’s erased.” As is the case with everything, something is always lost once it’s settled by words, and we have to sacrifice some truth when we communicate with words.

Probably many people have the penguin in the most memorable part of this documentary. Leaving the habitat of the ethnic group and walking into the depths of the mountains alone, we may never know what it was thinking at that time, nor why it went to the mountains instead of the coast. This is an eternal gulf. Many people talk about its loneliness and self-defense, but I can't always experience this feeling. I don't want to substitute my own understanding, but I just feel a huge aphasia.

Regarding this documentary, some people said that it was pretending to be deep and rambling. To be honest, I didn't understand what the film was trying to express, but I could still feel the director's thoughts a little bit, and sometimes I didn't say it myself. Say what you want to express, but you’re filled with a certain feeling—no thoughts, no intentions, just emotions.

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Extended Reading
  • Gerhard 2022-04-24 07:01:20

    "Those few who have experienced the world under the frozen sky often speaks of it as going down to the cathedral." Emphasis on experience and experience, science and life together. Take the warmest documentary at the cold end of the world. I miss the penguin who stubbornly ran into the distance

  • Raleigh 2022-03-24 09:03:10

    One is for the hardships of filming

Encounters at the End of the World quotes

  • [last lines]

    Stefan Pashov: There is a beautiful saying by an American philosopher, Alan Watts. He used to say that through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself, and through our ears the universe is listening to its cosmic harmonies. And we are the witness to which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

  • Werner Herzog: Is there such a thing as insanity in a penguin?