march......

ok, so last night we watched march of the penguins en famille.......not something one could do had the title been more honest.....documentary about penguins......but i will give this round to the producers for cleverness.......one really doesn't notice especially that this film could be an oscar contender for long film.....not with the awesomely photographed landscape and the tragic end met by those who couldn't keep up or stay the course......we watched the piece with the french subtitles turned on....made sense as it is a french film........and morgan freeman's tonal qualities and narrator were fitting......films like these should give us all pause for the relative ease in which we live our lives......by ease i mean warmth, satiety, etc.......though i was surprised to discover that these were not the mateforlife pairs that occur in other bird species......nope.....the mother-father-hatchling all say faretheewell at the end of the season........to start afresh with somebody else next year.......could be the penguins have it right and it is us humans who are crazy to think that fidelity is desirable........but having seen the touching scenes between the mating pairs.....it is hard to believe that they just walk away when the job is done.......well...they don't just walk away....they march........