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Advantages: Wonderful scenery, very factual, cute penguins Disadvantages: some sad moments
March of the Penguins is a film which I had been undecided about watching for quite some time. After finally buying it me and my hubby sat down last night to watch it. I was aware before the film began that it was more of a documentary but this did not bother me as I do occasionally like documentaries if they are on good subjects. The start of the film shows the amazing South Pole and the narration tells us that at one time people did live here as ... ...At Emperor Penguins march for days in single file with each taking turns to lead the way, unbeknown to us is how they remember the way as the ice is constantly changing to each year it is a completely different journey for them. When they arrive at their birth place they all huddle together to keep warm and await the female penguins who will begin their journey soon. The female penguins also begin their journey to their birth place which again takes ...
Advantages: A marvellous visual poem Disadvantages: A bit dated, a bit self-indulgent?
...beloved Super-8 home movies, and the aim is not to tell a conventional story.
The film is an attempt to put Jarman's life and works in the context of contemporary (ie Thatcher's) Britain, which means firstly that the film has dated slightly and secondly that it makes most sense to people who already have an interest in Jarman's films. There are plenty of social realist films from the eighties that provide equally incisive and perceptive satires ... ...music brings some order to the chaos (although composer and cellist Jocelyn Pook can't have been pleased to have her name mis-spelled in the credits).
Jarman's outlook is perhaps a depressing one, as the film concentrates on inner-city decay, totalitarian state and nuclear conflict, but I believe that Jarman was a film genius with a unique vision. The low budgets he had to work with only brought out the best in his imagination. ...
Advantages: Truth you'll get more out of this DVD than 20 hollywood ones easily Disadvantages: none worth mentioning
OMG - I cannot believe I am one of the first to do a review of this DVD this is absoloutely amazing DVD. It is one of the best I have seen because A It focuses on the truth - And once you see this DVD you will be totally shocked if you are not really a conspiracy person you\'ll actually start asking yourself how is it affecting my life and what can I do rather than follow the crowd believing what the media tells you like Sheeple a term being used ... ...their lives unaware of the real truth and what is really going on.
B It gives you the low down of many events that have happened in recent history and educates people to recognise the patterns our lives are being manipulated into and how the overlords are trying to herd us like a packs of sheep towards 80%population reduction a one world government a one world army and a one world religion a microchipped population logged into a computer tracked ...
Advantages: makes you think, can be motivating Disadvantages: none
...faced bunch of Royal Marine Commando recruits all the way through 32 weeks of basic training. With complete access to every part of the training process he follows the good times and the bad of each of the recruits and something that I felt made the documentary that little more exciting was that he also took part in the training himself, Chris Terrill was 55 years old. The Program was originally aired in 2007 for ITV; at the beginning you see the ... ...of becoming a Royal Marine Commando and receiving the coveted Green Beret so that they can become elite soldiers that look a million miles away from the guys that they were 32 weeks earlier. After the 32 weeks training Chris follows a few of the successful soldiers when they are posted to Afghanistan for a tour of duty, as well as a new officer who takes up his post in Afghanistan for his first tour with a mainly rookie company of men. I managed ...
Advantages: Cheap prices Disadvantages: Cheap labour
With the slave trade debate raging last year during the 200 commerations its always important to note that not only is that particular trade is still alive and well in the third world but its as good as here in its modern form in companies like Wal-Mart. Well meaning and angry people may well protest alongside some vegetarians banging a drum in London about what happened 200 years ago but most of the labeled clothing we are wearing will have been ... ...the products piled high in the huge shopping arenas of Wal-Mart and the like are the products of cheap and exploited labor somewhere around the world and when the documentary explores those sweat shops in South East Asia our arguments of reparation begin to fragment. In one segment you see young Chinese girls living in cramped dorms in a grubby factory, the gates locked at night, weekly rent and utilities deducted from their meager pay packets, whether ...
