March of the Penguins

Have you ever seen this documentary? It is a breath taking disclosure of the emperor's penguin cycle of life.
In the ice deserts of Antarctica, each winter thousand of penguins begin a journey through this bleak lifeless region in order to get to a place were the ice is thicker, guided by their instinct they march on single line to this place. During the march they are attacked by blizzards and gale force winds. Once they get to the place were ice is thicker, each penguin have to pair off. If any penguin doesn't get a pair, he or she have to go back to the sea on his/her own, it means a certain death. Every penguin mate with their monogamous couple and once the female penguin have laid a single egg they return to the sea, needless to say that the penguins have been weeks without nourishment. Meanwhile, the male penguins stay to guard the egg, cradling them on top of their feet the whole time, during this time they eat nothing and have to take care of their eggs from the predators, the cold and other penguins who have lost their eggs and want one for themselves. After two hard  months, the eggs hatch and newborn penguins are starving! They have to live from their fathers' food reserve, leaving the male penguins even weaker, if their mother penguins don't return on time, both father penguin and chick will die. Once the mothers return, their change roles with the male penguins. They keep doing this dangerous journeys countless times until the chicks are ready to march to the sea and next winter, it will start all over again!

It is a beautiful film of the breath taking cycle of life of the emperor's penguins. It is with no doubt one of the hardest places on earth to live, however, this penguins prove that love can find his way.

THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy

THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy

This is one of my all time favorite books. It is a novel written by Cormac McCarthy, who is one of the greatest north american writers of our times. It is a story of a father and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, in which the civilization have been destroyed and the earth have suffered and unspecified cataclysm. But this scenario isn't the focus of the story but the devotion of the father on his son. The mother of the child have decided to end with her life, and she talked to her husband asking his permission to take their son life with her. He doesn't allow that, no matter how bad was the world in that moment. After she killed herself, they begin a journey to the south in order to get to the sea, but the road is full of dangers, such like cannibals and apocalyptic weather hazards. Since the beggining of the story it makes you wonder: how is this story comming to an end? It is there something like a happy ending to these guys? It seems imposible, but if you want to find it out, I highly recommend you to read the book or watch the movie, which is also great and the father role is played by one of my favorite actors, Viggo Mortenssen.

This story really touches me, people often tell me that I am over protective with my child, it may be true and I can't stop thinking how hard must be a situation like the one depicted in this novel. Anyway, I recommend you to read or watch it but be ready to cry!