Documentary review

"MARCH OF THE PENGUINS"

(A review of a documentary)

It was an obvious choice for "Academy Award" jury members of 2005 to give
recognition to the efforts of a team of "March of the Penguins" documentary. It
is a fantastic story of the life of Penguins surviving in an earth's harshest place called Antarctica. This documentary opens many folds of a life of a living creature. The DVD authorization is also excellent as it tells not only the story of Penguins but also presents the struggle of film crew. This documentary is now available in the video stores
across the world. For students, this is an eye opening documentary, which provides you a great learning in front of camera and in the background, pre production preparationand post production challenges. In another world, it gives students a handful experience through a documentary film. There are different segments of the documentary available in the DVD format. One segment is a full story telling style of a documentary with English subtitles for hearing impaired and another is a story of film crew. Though there is some more segments are also associated with the DVD, but above two are the most important. In this documentary, we can not deny the efforts of many Antarctica's scientific missions, who have given a thought to the different producers. The especially of this documentary is that it has taken more then 13 months to
complete the wonderful account of the Penguin's life. However, another aspect
of this documentary is that you can feel the good and the bad climatic
condition through this documentary. The producer and the director have chosen a
psychological path to attract viewers. It is like a Hollywood
film with a love story, cleverly chosen to play with the characters of
Penguins. This documentary film reveals the desire and a hunger of sex in the
living beings. In that way the film encourage and makes audience eager to know
what is next? The "March of the Penguins" is like a march of the Penguins to
fulfill their desire of sex and following on to make their society live for a
long. The description of this documentary, which is printed on the back of DVD
cover also, had chosen cleverly. It forces people to bye.

The style of storytelling is excellent; there is no doubt about the quality of
story writing and a matching narration and background music. The quality of
video footage and work of cinematographers is extremely amazing. In totality
this documentary film is one of the best documentary in all aspects, accept in
some places it unnecessarily waist the time. In my view, the perfect running
time of the film could be 70 minutes rather then 80.

Description:

Name: March of the Penguins

Director: Luc Jacquet

Produced By: Bonne Pioche

Marketed By: Roadshow Entertainment and National Geographic

Reviewer: Jayprakash Panwar 'JP'