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(Film Review) MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
7.20.05
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
Directed by Luc Jacquet
Starring the Penguins of Antarctica
Featuring narration by Morgan Freeman
At The Triplex Cinema
Great Barrington, Mass.
413.528.8885
Part nature documentary, part love story, and a large part anthropomorphism gone berserk, MARCH OF THE PENGUINS will turn even the most jaded of cynics into a penguin lover and a believer in the power of monogamous love to unite all animal species.
Well, maybe not quite. Maybe that's an overstatement. But MARCH OF THE PENGUINS went a long way to achieve all that and more, the more being how can anyone NOT believe in God after seeing this film, which follows a tribe of emperor penguins over the course of the year, profiling their ridiculously inefficient manner of living and breeding, in which they leave their natural habitat (the ocean) at age five, march seventy miles in the coldest, most brutal weather over ridiculously barren terrain, just for the sake of standing around in the middle of nowhere in what they take to be their "breeding ground," miles and days away from any food and shelter, where they basically have to starve themselves near to death in order to reproduce.
No, I'm sorry, no Darwinian evolution would choose this as a logical way to reproduce. I take this as much as anything as total proof that there is a God, and that he is a comic, because only someone with a Monty Python-esque sense of humor could have set up such a situation.
The film itself is a marvel of filmmaking. You have absolutely no sense that there are humans in this landscape, yet the filmmakers were somehow able to insinuate themselves among this pack of tuxedo-clad walking ducks and catch them in various degrees of frolicking, including hooking up, foreplay, necking, imprinting, everything but doing the do itself.
Then what follows is the amazingly inefficient trip to the grocery store. When they're finally near death, having lost a third to a half of their body weight, mothers and fathers take turns marching back seventy miles to the ocean to get a nice piece of fish to bring back to their little penguinchik. It actually reminds me of modern day life, switching off with my wife going to the supermarket, except I must admit we have it a little bit easier. Evolution, or God? You decide.
The film offers the most amazing views of penguins up close and personal, and incredible vistas of Antarctica that will give you a new feeling for what a horribly inhospitable place our planet can be. Why penguins have chosen this place for their home is beyond me. Again, it's someone's idea of a terrible joke.
If a person uses a documentary movie as proof that there is a g**d then one could also use many of the movies coming out of Hollywood to prove the opposite.
7/22/2005
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