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Encounters at the End of the World
This movie had a lot of potential, unfortunately (aside from the director/narrator's grim outlook) it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a mosaic of lovely pictures of a forbidding landscape/seascape, a cross section anthology of the people who work at the South Pole, a dissection of the reasons that brought people there, a catalog of unusual animals that survive in the harsh climate -- so as a result it failed at all of them. It was disjointed and at times repetetive both visually and in its narrative. I was disappointed.
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The End of the world...
Although this is a fascinating film with spectacular cinematography it would have grabbed the audience more with a dramatic enthusiastic narrator to bring it alive! Werner Herzog, the great German director, with many credits in all areas, he even did a documentary on The Loch Ness Monster, is a super-tallented man but his voice has a one note quality in this. Nevertheless, I learned so much about past, present and future, the fantastic creatures that inhabit the deep, and the unusual group of people who form a community of about 1,100 at the Mcmurdo sound base in the austral summer,(Oct/Feb) If you like this kind of documentary you will enjoy it.
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Encounters at the End of the World
Encounters at the End of the World is not a great film. Basically, Werner Herzog tries to portray Antarctica and its inhabitants accurately, without "fluffy penguins," but he fails to offer an objective view or a strictly scientific view, and the view he offers isn't very strong; he asks typical philosophical questions, considers the meaning of language and the purpose of life, etc., but then he merely points out that people are lost, and some end up in strange places like Antarctica. Some of the footage was interesting and beautiful, but overall the film will fail to connect with your average moviegoer.
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