.: Deranged penguin.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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

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.; 5:40 am
The Brokendown Barman said...: i think i might be part penguin; 7:46 am
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.; 7:53 am
Titus said...: Oooh, that's cheered me up this evening.
How portentous was the music?; 8:14 am
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?; 11:17 pm

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