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"Encounters at the End of the World:" by far, the best documentary

Posted by tinear (A) on September 25, 2008 at 08:11:58

I've seen, recently.
Werner Herzog has repeatedly proven he's as fine a documentarist as he is a dramatist.
Here, he ventures to the McMurdo Station, the Antarctic scientific outpost.
Yes, the scientific explorations of the world above and beneath the massive ice are fascinating, and the images are unforgettable. The volcano footage alone, with its steam-created caves, are other-worldly.
The creatures far beneath the ice, resting along the bottom of the ocean, also seem from another, alien, and altogether frightening world.
But it is the people that work there which are the true object of Herzog's unquenchable curiosity. The daring, deep-sea diving biologist who enjoys psychedelic jamming on his electric guitar during off hours, the philosopher turned large equipment operator, the neutrino-studying physicist who was continually amazed that "billions or trillions!" of the sub-atomic particles were "going through my nose as we speak!"
Yet, with all these fascinating, strange encounters, what moved me most was the image of one animal, common to the area, as it wandered about.
To understand that, you must see the film.

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