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| In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey – a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love. |
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| Directed
by Luc Jacquet
Screenwriter
Michel Fessler
Produced
by Yves Darondeau .... producer
Sound Department Steve Pederson .... sound re-recording
mixer
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In
the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest
begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship
will begin with a long journey – a journey that will take them
hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures,
in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will
risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest
conditions on earth, all to find true love. |
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 In a year full of exciting movies filled with dazzling special effects, the trailer that has me most excited so far (besides Narnia) is for an upcoming documentary called March of the Penguins. It looks to be an amazing story with fantastic cinematography, and penguins are entertaining no matter how you present it.
 So I'm looking forward to this film, but since it's not released yet, I can't say I can comment much about it yet. But a particular image in the trailer sparked my memory of an image that has burned into my brain as a societal scar for many months. I don't really remember the exact title, but I remember a reality show that was on probably a year ago, that featured a procession of brides marching up a snow-covered mountain to be picked up by the man who chose them to marry him....it was some version of The Bachelor or something. The Penguins film has a similar, but much more awe-inspiring shot, of thousands of penguins marching in single file, stretching for miles it seems, across the Antarctic wasteland, as Morgan Freeman narrates, "looking for a mate." Now why is it, that when we see penguins do this, it's beautiful, but when we see humans do it, it's desperate and sad? Have we sunk to the level of penguins? Or have penguins always been a step (no pun intended) ahead of us?
 Penguins have it easy, as they are simply following the path of nature, and don't have to be swayed by the lie that low self-esteem can be cured by finding that perfect Prince Charming who will pick you off a mountain in his magic helicopter and you will live happily ever after. (And if he doesn't pick you up, you are left standing rejected and alone in the freezing cold in a wedding gown....such a sad image!) "Reality" shows of the Bachelor/Bachelorette type unfortunately perpuate this fairy tale nonsense that love is just a fuzzy feeling that will always be there once you find that 'perfect' person. That's all fine and good for the first little while, until the 'feeling' of 'being in love' goes away, and unless love becomes an 'action', which means loving another even when you don't feel like it, people will just move on to the next person they can 'fall in love' with, and so goes the endless cycle of broken families, divorce, mockery of the sacrament of marriage and pursuing after an ideal which does not exist. I could get on my soapbox at this point and say that 'all you need is Jesus,' but I won't, because it's not that simple, but I believe it's true. That's a reality show worth watching.
Perhaps we can learn something from penguins...
They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
-Luke 12:24
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