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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