“Thriving” Encounters at the End of the World
December 27th, 2008 Posted in moviesRecently saw this mesmerising movie by Herzog on Antarctica.
While the visuals are powerful, what really got me was the interviews and snapshots of the lives of some of the inhabitants (and I don’t mean the penguins!). They came across as bright, eccentric, and well, not quite fitting the “real world” that most of us are in. There stories on why they were there, what came before showed incredible variation.
You got the sense that for whatever reasons, Antarctica was , for now, just right and they thrive within it - being a combination of their science and discovery focus, just being there, not being elsewhere , the “now” sense of danger, cadre of others who are also thriving in this quirky sort of way…
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