Encounters at the End of the World 2007 123movies

Watch: Encounters at the End of the World 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – ‘Werner Herzog’ takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions. A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researcher’s nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to survive white-out conditions by wearing cartoon-face buckets over their heads. Animal researchers milk mother seals as part of their study. Volcanologists offer advice on what to do when a volcano erupts. A pipefitter shows us the anomaly in his hands that he says are a sign he descended from Atzec royalty. A former Colorado banker drives what he has christened Ivan the Terra Bus. An underwater diver shows his colleagues DVDs of apocalyptic sci-fi films like Them! (1954). And — though Herzog declares he’s not “making another film about penguins” — we meet a penguin researcher who answers the filmmaker’s questions about homosexuality and insanity in his subjects. We also meet an individualist penguin, who breaks away from the other birds to run toward the mountains, facing certain death..
Plot: Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent’s unique locations. Herzog’s voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about “fluffy penguins”, but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 18,544
	94% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 218 Popularity: 6.508 | TMDB

Reviews:

Psychotic Penguins And Other Stories
Werner Herzog makes Anartica, strange, magical, hypnotic, and relevant, mostly without the use of penguins(who are apparently at turns insane and suicidal prostitutes and swingers).

Some of the images were very familiar to his earlier “Wild Blue Yonder”, but the narrative, holds together much stronger here.

Eccentric scientists, and travelers from all over the world, discussing the foundations of evolution, the invisible energies that permeate the cosmos, the constant shift of water and energy just beneath the surface of the ice, they also play guitar and wander around with boxes on their heads.

It’s not so much a documentary about “Antartica”, the geographical location, but about Antartica as an idea, an image, the people who go there, and why, a little of everything or anything that’s is interesting. Though Herzog in voice over gives us a few pet peeves, and doesn’t mind talking about not liking a person or place, just as much as finding one interesting, it can get a bit distracting, even annoying…but mostly it’s kinda funny, and can break up some of the slower moments.

My favorite Herzog quote is “Documentaries are as close to truth as glaciers are to farting”, here, staged as it may or may not be, you can still smell the ice, and it’s stinks brilliantly.

Not your average science documentary
Encounters at the End of the World is a quirky and interesting film, definitely a departure from your average dry science documentary or eye-candy nature film, though it has elements of both.

It focuses predominantly on the odd collection of people drawn to live in an Antarctic research station, and to a slightly lesser degree on the oddness of the region itself, and the bizarre bits of scientific trivia that can be found there. Then there the bonus meanderings about the ultimate doom of humanity and whether we originally emerged from the sea onto land to escape the “horror” of marine ecosystems.

Many of its parts are fascinating, but for me, it didn’t quite come together as a whole. It drifted in a lot of different directions, but seemed overall to be lacking in focus a bit. There were also a couple of elements that disturbed me a little – one was the inconsistency of talking about how humanity is destroying itself one moment, and then bashing “tree huggers and whale huggers” the next. I guess it’s OK to notice that we’re damaging the world, but not to try and do something about it? The other was that in some cases he seemed to be going out of his way to depict the people he interviewed in embarrassing ways, with things like leaving the camera lingering on them after the interview appeared to be finished, as they stood nervously, apparently trying to figure out if it was over or not.

But on the whole I would recommend it — the flaws are offset by some impressive visuals (especially the underwater footage), dry humour, interesting ideas to ponder, and a really great soundtrack by Henry Kaiser and David Lindley, which work very well with the oddness of the content.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Documentary
Director Werner Herzog
Writer Werner Herzog
Actors Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 16 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Sony HVR-Z1
Laboratory Alpha Dogs, Burbank CA (as AlphaDogs)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Video (HD)
Cinematographic Process XDCAM HD
Printed Film Format 35 mm