Summary
While watching such nature documentaries, movie audiences usually transpose their own human attributes onto the on-screen critters, and this type of cross-species identification has paid off with specialty art-house releases such as Winged Migration. Yet [Luc Jacquet]'s penguins take on even more personality traits, and not just because the voice-over narration by Morgan Freeman claims at one point, "They're just like us." The movie opens with the penguins, their tummies filled with seafood, as they leave their summertime ocean home in March and begin to head inland for a 70-mile journey in a tottering conga line. They're lookin' for love at a distant meat market, and while it's almost identical to a Saturday night at the Cabaret, there's a good reason why they must travel so far: The ice must stay hard so that the baby chicks won't fall into the water.
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March of the Penguins
For those who view the phenomenon of true love in abstract, existential terms, such an opinion may well be swayed by this eye-opening, endlessly fascinating documentary from Luc Jacquet regarding the pers...
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