Encounters At The End Of The World part 7

Film: Encounters At The End Of The World
Directed by Werner Herzog
United States (2007)
Documentary: Nature/Science
7 parts/100 mins

Its not Antarctica, its Werner Herzog's Antarctica (and if you have seen any Herzog film then you know what I mean). Well-known eccentric German director Werner Herzog offers his unique perspective on the South Pole in this film profiling the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station. Located on Ross Island, McMurdo Station is the headquarters of the National Science Foundation. Herzog continues this long trend of profiling people on the fringes of society, this time focusing on the small community of "professional dreamers" who live and work at the McMurdo. The result is a film that is at once mesmerizing and captivating, due both to the surroundings he explores and to the fascinating people he meets.

Opening to reveal the majestic beauty of the underwater kingdom that sits just beneath McMurdo Station in the South Pole, the first frames of the film make it easy to see why Herzog wanted to travel to this remote corner of the globe and interview its curious inhabitants. Herzog is a man with many questions about nature, though they aren't necessarily the kind of questions you would see posed on your average National Geographic special; he ultimately proves himself to be just as interested in exploring the dreams and motivations of the scientists themselves as he is in the environment they're researching. The people Herzog speaks with are just as colorful and interesting as the surroundings they reside in, and as a result, the film proves as stimulating intellectually as it is visually. With titles like "Forklift driver/Philosopher" the inhabitants of the various field camps visited by Herzog always have an interesting story to tell, and whether he's speaking with the community bus driver or the neutrino physicist, he's got a fascinating knack for drawing those stories out. An interview with a cell biologist preparing for his last professional dive turns unexpectedly profound as the director's brooding subject begins to ponder the microscopic horrors that await him on the ocean floor, and later, a casual conversation with a notoriously reticent penguin researcher leads to one of the film's most poignant moments, after Herzog attempts to liven the conversation by playfully inquiring about insanity among penguins. Likewise, his consistent practice of allowing the camera to linger on his subjects long after they've completed their thoughts draws out their true inner nature in a way that not even the best questions can.

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[GhostsonAcid]

where's part 6??????

[alchemistkx]

@GhostsonAcid blocked by NBC

[martin1226]

I have been sufficiently humbled, as man should be on regular basis.

[HerrMagog]

@jamesaellis "Verily, he is worthy" by the Orthodox Singers Male Choir. Conductor Georgiy Smirnov, Octavist Yuri Wichniakov.

[jamesaellis]

What's the music at 8mins?

[jamesaellis]

Part 6???

[kokakoka4]

thx

[Oscar301]

thank you for posting this; it's a shame the copyright fascists nailed part 6

[mustbejames1]

@alchemistkx ok why? ...part 1q-7 except 6? ...ugh ok copyright enclownment?

[GhostsonAcid]

@alchemistkx oh man...