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Review Section Review Section Pete Porter 1 Grizzly Man . 2005. Lions Gate/Discovery Films. Directed by Werner Herzog; March of the Penguins . 2005. Warner Independent/National Geographic International. Directed by Luc Jacquet; The Story of the Weeping Camel . 2003. ThinkFilm/ National Geographic World Films. Directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. Grizzly Man, March of the Penguins , and The Story of the Weeping Camel are all docu- mentaries that gesture toward the unknown and the unknowable: Grizzly makes the unfathomable depths of the human character and nature its central theme; Camel climaxes in an ancient ritual that defies rational explanation; and the narrator (Morgan Freeman) of Penguins often admits the limitations of what humans understand about the mating habits of Emperor penguins in Antarctica. All adopt a contemplative pace, often pausing to witness the wonders of nature, such as glacier formations in Grizzly , sand swirling in the wind in Camel , and the play of sun and sky in Penguins . Of these, only Penguins devotes itself exclusively to the lives of nonhuman animals in the wild, postponing the appearance of humans until the credits reveal the filmmakers inter- acting with the penguins. By contrast, Camel follows http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Society & Animals Brill

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Society & Animals , Volume 14 (2): 201 – Jan 1, 2006
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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1063-1119
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Review Section Pete Porter 1 Grizzly Man . 2005. Lions Gate/Discovery Films. Directed by Werner Herzog; March of the Penguins . 2005. Warner Independent/National Geographic International. Directed by Luc Jacquet; The Story of the Weeping Camel . 2003. ThinkFilm/ National Geographic World Films. Directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. Grizzly Man, March of the Penguins , and The Story of the Weeping Camel are all docu- mentaries that gesture toward the unknown and the unknowable: Grizzly makes the unfathomable depths of the human character and nature its central theme; Camel climaxes in an ancient ritual that defies rational explanation; and the narrator (Morgan Freeman) of Penguins often admits the limitations of what humans understand about the mating habits of Emperor penguins in Antarctica. All adopt a contemplative pace, often pausing to witness the wonders of nature, such as glacier formations in Grizzly , sand swirling in the wind in Camel , and the play of sun and sky in Penguins . Of these, only Penguins devotes itself exclusively to the lives of nonhuman animals in the wild, postponing the appearance of humans until the credits reveal the filmmakers inter- acting with the penguins. By contrast, Camel follows

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