This week we saw March of the Penguins (at last!). Like its compatriot Winged Migration (or Le Peuple Migrateur), I passively resisted seeing it when it came out. I've no idea why. And, again like W. M., I absolutely loved it. This wonderful movie actually came out six years ago! Now, I completely understand Happy Feet, which came out two years later and is so obviously based on MotP. We loved Happy Feet and will be putting it back in our Netflix queue. Going back to the real thing... the movie and indeed the story that it tells is absolutely incredible! I had no idea what hardships these Emperor Penguins endure each winter just to raise one chick. The colony that the French filmmakers filmed uses an ancestral breeding ground that is more than 70 (!) miles from open water in the depth of the winter: that takes them about 8 days to walk. The fathers at one point have gone four months without eating. Yet, they have a little meal for their chicks secreted away in a fold of their throat.
And is there anything on earth more adorable than these little penguin chicks bobbing their heads up and down and singing to their parents?
And like Winged Migration, the music is very good (although rather more repetitive). Both scores feature the bassoon prominently.
Netflix is great!
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