Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Deranged penguin.



A clip from the documentary filmed in Antarctica by Werner Herzog, 'Encounters at the end of the world'.

5 comments:

Jim Murdoch said...

He's just broken. I know it's so tempting to anthropomorphise these creatures but having lived with a cockateil for the past three years I can tell you that it's all hard-wiring. Every day is the same routine; he's like a little feathery robot.

The Brokendown Barman said...

i think i might be part penguin

McGuire said...

Sure Jim, I know he's hard wired like us all, but I'm interpreting it in human terms - anthrpomorphic. Cheeky I know. I think this does tell us something about being human.

Titus said...

Oooh, that's cheered me up this evening.
How portentous was the music?

McGuire said...

Yes titus, the whole scene has a monmumental feel to it and it all trurns out to be quite fucking funny!

I was torn between seeing the peguin as some wayward existentialisT (Like Homer) or a deluded nutcase (Like Don Quixote). It moved me and it also made me burst out laughing.

refreshing video. Allegory, anyone?