Encounters at the end of the world - the movie.

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This time in Antarctica, Werner Herzog examines life from the microscopic to the hyperreal. We travel with him to McMurdo station where the over qualified staff gets panicky when Mr.Softee runs low. I had heard somewhere before that the drive to get off the base is imminent once you land, preferably to get into the landscape without a bucket on your head. The landscape, even in the movies, is profound. Above ground and under the ice Herzog captures the insanity in a way only he can. Determined not to make another penguin movie, Herzog has taken all the penguin movie prerequisites and craftily made them work. I laughed, I cried and I'm ready for tickets to his next adventure.