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March of the Penguins
February 27, 2006

March of the Penguins, by Director Luc Jacquet, demonstrates that sometimes the simplest conflicts in life are perhaps the greatest. This film is penguin versus nature; it's love; it's birth; it's death. Each of the three themes are simple. Each of the themes are clear. The end result is a movie that packs more feeling than anything I have seen in a long time.

March of the Penguins presents perhaps the most basic concept of all, reproduction. The film documents the annual cycle of the Antarctic's emperor penguins and the vast distances they must tolerate in order to survive and repopulate. Just prior to the beginning of winter, packs of penguins crawl up onto the ice and set forth to toddle some 70 miles inland. They then congregate with the females at the same mating grounds that they were raised at. Males and females pair off, introduce each other and perform their ancient mating dance. Once the egg is laid, the female passes it off......

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