Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)

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  • čas přidán 20. 08. 2015
  • In this scene, Herzog is bored to tears talking to a penguin expert so he asks the seemingly flippant question, "Can a penguin go insane?" Yet the very next scene we see just that - out of a swarm of penguins heading to the mating grounds a lone dissenter makes make a sharp right and head towards the mountains in a full-speed waddle. It's explained that this penguin has become confused and will head for that mountain with the same vigour with which he pursued the promise of procreation, until he reaches his goal or dies. Isn't insanity a human trait? Near the end, while exploring some tunnels under the south pole, Herzog wonders what an alien race would think of the relics of our civilization and how they would imagine us to be. Who knows what an alien race would have thought of the deeply funny snow-blindness training sequence featuring people with cartoon-faced buckets on their heads leading each other around - literally the blind leading the blind.
    From: Encounters at the end of the world (Werner Herzog)

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  • @TheStockwell
    @TheStockwell Před 5 lety +8885

    Werner Herzog tells a joke:
    "Why did the penguin cross the road? To die. Alone. Insane and unnoticed."

    • @KaiserFranzJosefI
      @KaiserFranzJosefI Před 4 lety +380

      German humor

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell Před 3 lety +20

      @menckencynic Copyright infringement and outright theft are the foundations of a healthy internet. Go for it! :)

    • @86rattlehead
      @86rattlehead Před 3 lety +18

      Werner Herzog films a joke.

    • @86rattlehead
      @86rattlehead Před 3 lety +7

      @menckencynic We just try to be ourselves while Werner films us and we pray it better be a joke video rather than his usual documentary...

    • @han3wmanwukong125
      @han3wmanwukong125 Před 3 lety +75

      We noticed you, little penguin soldier of fate.
      We noticed you.

  • @Wilsongaboi
    @Wilsongaboi Před rokem +3450

    Scientist: "They get disorientated"
    Werner Herzog: "The penguin peers into the void and sequesters what's left of his sanity and plunges head long into the abyss to never be seen again."

    • @paulcolbourne9112
      @paulcolbourne9112 Před 11 měsíci +10

      😂

    • @gavrelton6211
      @gavrelton6211 Před 11 měsíci +5

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @zeMasterRuseman
      @zeMasterRuseman Před 10 měsíci +61

      It's a better explanation than being disoriented. He can see where his flock is and where the rest are heading.

    • @DrawsRene
      @DrawsRene Před 10 měsíci +48

      @@zeMasterRusemanbeing disorient is not always that easy. You can hit your head pretty badly and see your mates and still walk the wrong direction.

    • @WiseOwl_1408
      @WiseOwl_1408 Před 10 měsíci +9

      It's always strange how people apply meaning to the meaningless

  • @johnp1667
    @johnp1667 Před 2 lety +3779

    He's not running off to die, he's running to find out if he's really alive.

    • @hiendarinenkoray
      @hiendarinenkoray Před rokem +131

      damn it, spike

    • @TheAeolian
      @TheAeolian Před rokem +55

      @@hiendarinenkoray Bang.

    • @andrewswanson4819
      @andrewswanson4819 Před rokem +29

      He's the Sky King of the penguin world

    • @redtexan7053
      @redtexan7053 Před rokem +54

      The Real Penguin Blues

    • @Nick_fb
      @Nick_fb Před rokem +16

      Jurassic Park: The Lost World
      Nick says: The animal (T-Rex) exists on the planet for the first time in tens of millions of years and the only way you can express yourself is to kill it.
      Roland replies: Remember that chap about twenty years ago? I forget his name. Climbed Everest without any oxygen, came down nearly dead. When they asked him, they said why did you go up there to die? He said I didn't, I went up there to live.

  • @Chudea
    @Chudea Před 3 lety +4748

    All death is certain. This penguin didn't go to the mountains to die. He went on the journey in order to live. Rest in peace on the top of that mountain, penguin. Your frozen grave will be your place of victory over monotony

    • @louisvincent5035
      @louisvincent5035 Před 3 lety +137

      Damn dude I'm glad I came to the comments...

    • @greymarsh8941
      @greymarsh8941 Před 3 lety +45

      right in the feels...

    • @sealife12
      @sealife12 Před 3 lety +18

      The penguin wrote me and said fuck you, he didn’t die, he made it alive and that he cannot understand English nor can he access CZcams.

    • @senoj.rednaxela
      @senoj.rednaxela Před 3 lety +58

      I read that all in Herzog's voice

    • @janrupertalfeche8959
      @janrupertalfeche8959 Před 3 lety +26

      Ah, so the penguin equivalent of doing Everest.

  • @sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262
    @sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262 Před 8 měsíci +87

    Herzog: IS THERE SUCH THEENG AS INSANITY AMONG PENGVINZ
    Guy: (pause) um, well,

    • @98765zach
      @98765zach Před 3 měsíci +14

      To be fair if a man who sounds like Werner Herzog drags you up a cliff and tells you to sit down on the edge of it, and then IMMEDIATELY asks you a question about insanity and nihilism I too would be VERY careful with my words lol

  • @radovanwolf593
    @radovanwolf593 Před 7 lety +1601

    One must imagine the penguin
    happy

    • @5508Vanderdekken
      @5508Vanderdekken Před 3 lety +54

      beautiful comment, lol. The myth of penuinis

    • @tamanwar203
      @tamanwar203 Před 3 lety +52

      - Albert Pinguin

    • @joshuajackson530
      @joshuajackson530 Před 2 lety +50

      The struggle towards the mountain is enough to fill a birds heart. One must image Mr. Penguin happy.

    • @evanwonisch788
      @evanwonisch788 Před 2 lety +3

      Incredible..

    • @ZigbertD
      @ZigbertD Před 2 lety +22

      Emptied of hope, the penguin has laid his heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

  • @faraday1548
    @faraday1548 Před 2 lety +3784

    I genuinely can't tell if Werner Herzog is a comedic genius or entirely insane.

  • @josephl9931
    @josephl9931 Před 8 měsíci +82

    I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. - Franz Kakfa

    • @eldermillennial8330
      @eldermillennial8330 Před 6 dny +5

      In the book “Conversations with Kafka” by Gustav Janouch, the morose Kafka commented on reading Chesterton's “Orthodoxy” and “The Man who was Thursday”: "Er ist so lustig, dass man fast glauben könnte, er habe Gott gefunden." "He is so joyful, that one might almost believe that he had found God."
      NO ONE else even came remotely close to getting Kafka to say anything so nearly positive.
      I can’t recommend Chesterton enough.

  • @Sabrowsky
    @Sabrowsky Před 7 lety +2770

    give it up to werner herzog to make penguins look depressing
    that shit requires sheer talent

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 Před 3 lety +79

      Ehhh... it's a German talent.

    • @lordmegatron4789
      @lordmegatron4789 Před 3 lety +42

      @@seththomas9105 i was about to say it's called being german lol

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 Před 3 lety

      @@lordmegatron4789 Pretty much sums it up.

    • @satisfying6040
      @satisfying6040 Před rokem

      How would you know? You have experience filming and narrating penguins?

    • @dmoon9037
      @dmoon9037 Před rokem +5

      I need to see that penguin on a Rammstein treadmill.

  • @helmepodesarius2198
    @helmepodesarius2198 Před 9 měsíci +69

    People don’t understand the abyss was the colony. Faceless, unchanging, stuck in monotony. A hideous cycle. The penguin chose, ergo he’s not looking into the abyss. He’s looking into the sun to find his fortune.

  • @stroud9208
    @stroud9208 Před 3 lety +554

    I expected a meme and instead I ended up with an existential crisis over a penguin.

  • @DannyKlimt
    @DannyKlimt Před 2 lety +124

    1:33 the penguin turned around and said: "In case I don't see ya: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

  • @mishtaromaniello8295
    @mishtaromaniello8295 Před 6 lety +2666

    The way the penguin turns around at 1:33 after Werner asks “But why?” is very chilling. It’s like the penguin heard the question and turned to try to answer, but went back to the mountains and said “I don’t know.”

    • @kaboulscabal4816
      @kaboulscabal4816 Před 4 lety +44

      Auda abu Tayi : [to Lawrence] There is only the desert for you.

    • @kaboulscabal4816
      @kaboulscabal4816 Před 4 lety +63

      Or said ... "I *do* know" and *then* turned back to the mountains ...

    • @sonnyboyduffy8399
      @sonnyboyduffy8399 Před 4 lety +2

      WOULD YOU GO BACK, I need a pizza bra

    • @fakecubed
      @fakecubed Před 4 lety +117

      It's almost as if the narration was written after they got the footage, and timed with the footage for maximum emotional impact.

    • @fajita2
      @fajita2 Před 4 lety +15

      Well, it's not like the voiceover was played in real time to the penguin during that shot....

  • @avfn8981
    @avfn8981 Před 3 lety +1252

    i feel like this short clip pretty much sums up all of Herzog's films. deeply profound and totally bonkers at the same time.

    • @Niphredyl
      @Niphredyl Před 2 lety +28

      It's around 60% of the runtime of the film. I actually shread a tear. Not embarrassed.

    • @sunsetvista877
      @sunsetvista877 Před 9 měsíci +19

      I think the penguin is on his way to pull an abandoned boat out the the central american jungle☺☺

    • @Progger11
      @Progger11 Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@NiphredylHow does one "shread" a tear? What is "shread," anyway?

    • @Niphredyl
      @Niphredyl Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@Progger11 typo, shed

    • @humildemarcelo
      @humildemarcelo Před 5 měsíci +2

      ​@@sunsetvista877bro going to put an opera house in the ancient city of the elder ones

  • @duncanthomson7894
    @duncanthomson7894 Před 3 lety +650

    I never thought I would have watched a video of a penguin waddling giddily towards oblivion as many times as I have now.

    • @colinmelton6919
      @colinmelton6919 Před 3 lety +1

      It’s the voice...

    • @dmoon9037
      @dmoon9037 Před rokem +11

      In a Herzog documentary, with full spectrum anthropomorphism, that penguin is you looking back at yourself in chaos and existential hostility. As in Kubrick’s Odyssey, Dave Bowman looking in the mirror.

    • @johngoldsworthy7135
      @johngoldsworthy7135 Před 8 měsíci

      Herzog is a filmmaking genius that’s why

    • @MsMiguel70
      @MsMiguel70 Před 6 měsíci

      Oh come on, you saw it coming. : )

  • @CG-mj4vf
    @CG-mj4vf Před 2 lety +938

    This was both disturbing, depressing, hilarious, and wonderful all at once.

  • @amyvic5121
    @amyvic5121 Před 4 lety +541

    It's Nietzsches Überpinguin, living (or dying) alone in the mountains.

    • @mator2339
      @mator2339 Před 3 lety +3

      Nietzsche wasn't a nihilist.

    • @amyvic5121
      @amyvic5121 Před 3 lety +4

      @@mator2339 Yeah he was just an arrogant prick. He didn't say there was nothung true to say about the world he just said everybody else was wrong so far.

    • @robinhoodwasasocialist.1401
      @robinhoodwasasocialist.1401 Před 3 lety +28

      When you stare at the penguin; the penguin stares back at you.

    • @jml4000
      @jml4000 Před 3 lety +17

      He's retreating to the mountains to work on his manuscript - "Thus Clucked Zarathustra"

    • @trikkinikki970
      @trikkinikki970 Před 3 lety +7

      @@mator2339 no, but he did idolize those who made their virtue their downfall, whether it be a tight rope walker who fell, or this penguin who yearned for greatness and the unknowable to only be rewarded with death.

  • @roxxram9151
    @roxxram9151 Před 2 lety +648

    This penguin understands that if they reach the summit against all odds, they will triumphantly belly-slide down and become the fastest penguin that ever lived. If he hits a snow-ramp he will be truly airborne for a short time. Waddle on, little dreamer

    • @DrawsRene
      @DrawsRene Před 10 měsíci +27

      Waddle on little dreamer just killed my heart

    • @nodeloliver6201
      @nodeloliver6201 Před 9 měsíci +6

      Belly slide on, you beautiful creature.

    • @archsys307
      @archsys307 Před 9 měsíci +7

      Bros making learn to fly in real life

    • @brobruh7850
      @brobruh7850 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Misread fastest and first and I think that’s beautiful too

    • @roxxram9151
      @roxxram9151 Před 9 měsíci +4

      @@brobruh7850 God I wish penguins were real

  • @avisays350
    @avisays350 Před 9 měsíci +115

    this penguin reminds me of the insanity of early human exploration, the fact that there were humans living on islands like new zealand or even the polynesian islands means that a group of humans had to construct and get on a boat and sail the open ocean towards absolutely nothing, no identifiable goal or destination, just to see what was out there. like them, even this penguin had to be held to the answer to the question “but why?”

    • @chrissibersky4617
      @chrissibersky4617 Před 2 měsíci +19

      I've read a lot about the Vikings. They believed in fate. That their time on earth was set before birth. They thought that you couldn't escape your destiny. So if you were to die at a certain time it didn't matter if you were at the battlefield or cowering under a table at home. And the best thing you could achieve in life was a glorious death that would make people remember you. I think that's why they were such fearless explorers.
      I don't know what is going on in the penguin's mind though.

    • @franzlinke8086
      @franzlinke8086 Před měsícem +3

      Endless try and error of the human collective

    • @kesorangutan6170
      @kesorangutan6170 Před 16 dny +4

      Yeah actually sea-exploring civilizations such as iberians, phoenicians, austronesians/polynesians, and vikings kinda know where to go thanks to their knowledge and skills on navigation but definitely did not know what was awaiting them in the vastness of ocean. It was mental but not that much mental.

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Před 15 dny +2

      @@kesorangutan6170 Some of them definitely did not make it. There were stories of lost Polynesians eking out a living on some random atoll, and plenty of Polynesian outliers which are weirdly isolated (and on/near already inhabited islands) with names of previous homelands that really seem like a navigation error took them there. In some cultures they sent out adolescents to navigate in a sort of trial by fire. Storms can send you off course too. Of course, some of the skilled navigators were able to follow birds and knew exactly where to go. But it was definitely not a surefire thing every time, who knows how many died lost in the ocean, observation bias is very strong here.
      Iberians and Phonecians never made it beyond Gibraltar (and maaaybe the islands of Macaronesia), the Mediterranean is much more chill considering the weather is generally not quite so bad and you're bound to hit shoreline within a reasonable time. And even then they tended to follow the shorelines.
      Basically, a lot of early European sailing was pretty chill, the Austronesian peoples were pretty bonkers with navigation and definitely had their fair share of failures in the quest for new islands.

    • @kesorangutan6170
      @kesorangutan6170 Před 14 dny +4

      @@StuffandThings_ What do you mean Phoenicians never made past gibraltar? They ruled the atlantic trade. Phoenicians went as far south as Senegal (a conservative estimate btw) and as north as Great Britain. They definitely did not just coast-hug because you can't pass cape Bojador by coast-hugging. You also can't find colonies in Sardinia, Baleares etc by coast hugging.
      By "iberians" I meant portuguese and spanish.
      I also never claimed all of them made it?? Do you know how many ships vikings of Greenland lost due to harsh ocean currents and icebergs? A lot. If 10 viking ships sailed to Greenland only 3 or 4 of them would make it.

  • @moskva-kassiopeya
    @moskva-kassiopeya Před 9 měsíci +145

    Imagine you escaped the matrix to discover some huge creatures standing silently still just watching you passing by.

  • @televikkuntdaowuxing
    @televikkuntdaowuxing Před 7 lety +1254

    That "But *WHY* ?" basically explains the only existential question that matters..

    • @Navak_
      @Navak_ Před 6 lety +79

      so profound even the penguin heard him and considered the question for a moment before continuing on his way

    • @ingolfurarnar697
      @ingolfurarnar697 Před 5 lety +5

      Suicide. These penguins can't hang themselves in a rope or blow their brains out.

    • @thesprawl2361
      @thesprawl2361 Před 4 lety +25

      This comment section has some of the most unintentionally funny comments I've seen. "why is the penguin waddling off to the mountains?" is apparently the most transcendent existential question in all the universe!
      I know what you were getting at, but it sounds quite funny if you take a step back and look at it. It's a penguin that's a bit thick - once you realise that, all the posts in the comments immediately appear deeply absurd.

    • @wittylibrarian
      @wittylibrarian Před 4 lety +5

      @@Navak_ the penguin turned around when he heard the question and shouted back "EFF YOU HERZOG I JUST WANNA DIE"

    • @colinharter4094
      @colinharter4094 Před 3 lety +2

      At first, I thought he was going to answer his own question. But then I remembered this ain't no David Attenborough documentary. 😂

  • @chaosfive55
    @chaosfive55 Před 7 lety +447

    "But WHY?"
    --because sometimes the quest for the unknown outweighs all considerations of mere life and death.

    • @alenaivanov3868
      @alenaivanov3868 Před 3 lety +8

      Yes, penguins on the quest for the unknown. The classic novel "Pengarrtha" immediately springs to mind.

    • @FalconTalk
      @FalconTalk Před 3 lety

      Boom

  • @HughMansonMD
    @HughMansonMD Před 6 měsíci +97

    How does Werner make a possibly insane penguin one of the most poetic things I've ever seen on film? The dude is a legitimate genius.

    • @galilelollel9658
      @galilelollel9658 Před 3 měsíci

      He is just twlling facs. He knows whats heading infront of the penguin. After 5k kilometers he will die surely or before and this was the last moment that we sqw him

    • @user-vs2yl2up1l
      @user-vs2yl2up1l Před 3 měsíci +5

      He sees poetry everywhere. All real artists do.

  • @Alemanizando
    @Alemanizando Před 3 lety +791

    There are so many days when I feel just like this penguin.

    • @Markwaynesapp
      @Markwaynesapp Před 3 lety +7

      Life is not about how many days you feel like the penguin,
      Life is about how many days you dont :)

    • @menospeakwelsh
      @menospeakwelsh Před 3 lety +23

      @@Markwaynesapp And that's the problem. The overall amount of days where I do feel like him is vastly greater than those where I don't. When I just fixate on the 'good' days I am simply ignoring most of my life at best and outright refusing to acknowledge it at worst.

    • @Gallowglass7
      @Gallowglass7 Před 3 lety +3

      I understand, however, don't presume your suffering within itself is proof of your authenticity.
      *Nods*

    • @ogungou9
      @ogungou9 Před rokem +3

      @@Markwaynesapp: 51 years of penguinism for me ... really.

    • @sonneversets3530
      @sonneversets3530 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Jesus is waiting to help you with that.✝
      Just ask...❤

  • @seanm4173
    @seanm4173 Před 7 lety +498

    Penguins bored as fuck with it all. Doesn't fancy a cuddle and doesn't feel like having his life run by an egg. He's the smartest of the group. I wish he could fly.

    • @shadowfox6438
      @shadowfox6438 Před 7 lety +11

      Sean M I'd have done the same

    • @seanm4173
      @seanm4173 Před 7 lety +30

      yup, one or two seasons of that nonsense? time to bounce

    • @joe3489
      @joe3489 Před 3 lety +14

      I wish he could touch the sky

    • @FlaccidSunday
      @FlaccidSunday Před 2 lety +6

      He's certainly flying now

  • @GeneralGuitFiddle
    @GeneralGuitFiddle Před rokem +12

    Fuck man when you realize Herzog is just commenting on your life in a penguin documentary.

  • @peruviansatan1969
    @peruviansatan1969 Před 4 lety +346

    Some might say the penguin “is literally just vibing” but we may never know the truth of this tiny modern sisyphus’s intentions.

  • @johnlo2117
    @johnlo2117 Před 7 měsíci +8

    Herzog: But why?
    Penguin: Why not?

  • @coolandgood1010
    @coolandgood1010 Před 6 lety +712

    At 1:34 when he looks back, then continues onward towards the mountains with such conviction.. I could feel that moment in the fibers of my heart. I could feel it in my blood. I relate to the little guy. I can relate so much. He's going to the big tundra in the sky.

    • @OrdnanceTV
      @OrdnanceTV Před 2 lety +6

      I am with you

    • @RFC3514
      @RFC3514 Před 9 měsíci +5

      He's going to the bucket full of fish behind that rock that Werner showed him the previous day.

    • @mitenka222
      @mitenka222 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Ну проголодается и рванёт к воде этот пухляшка

    • @valinorean4816
      @valinorean4816 Před dnem

      @@mitenka222 The other one had already traveled 80 kilometers and was still going forward...

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch Před 7 lety +161

    Lovecraft: mountain of madness

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym Před 4 dny +2

      Had to scroll too far for this. He heard the recognizable, yet eerie calling: "Tekeli-li, tekeli-li..."

  • @regzzuse280
    @regzzuse280 Před 11 měsíci +24

    1:34 That last glance, then turning around accepting the fate of the unknown and running towards it.

  • @mrhombreman
    @mrhombreman Před 6 lety +85

    Nihilist penguin
    Defies the shackles of life
    With senseless ease

    • @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
      @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Před rokem +5

      was the choice to leave the last line of the haiku a syllable short deliberate?
      If so, congratulations. You have shown your own defiance.
      If not, this is a disrespectful treatment of a great literary tradition. Senseless indeed.
      Either way, it made me think 🙂

    • @mrhombreman
      @mrhombreman Před rokem +3

      @@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 haha just me being sloppy

    • @sneezejs
      @sneezejs Před 6 měsíci

      @@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494😂

  • @SPAPBrocker
    @SPAPBrocker Před 6 lety +199

    When you feel like you relate to a penguin more than most people

    • @Slechy_Lesh
      @Slechy_Lesh Před rokem +5

      I'm quite sure many people are struggling with suicidal thoughts

    • @DrawsRene
      @DrawsRene Před 10 měsíci +5

      @@Slechy_Leshmore than you think. And most people find a solution to live with that.

    • @MostIntelligentMan
      @MostIntelligentMan Před 9 měsíci +1

      ​@@Slechy_Leshnot enough

    • @sonneversets3530
      @sonneversets3530 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@MostIntelligentMan You must be a big fan of the genocide that goes on.
      Including currently. And what you’re most likely unaware of, the past couple yrs.
      Not to worry, plenty more will be happening.
      Everywhere. Well calculated & planned.
      Hope you know Jesus soon.
      No One Else is going to save you, or anyone else from themselves.
      *Jesus is everyone’s Only Hope.* ✝
      Don’t keep ignoring Him.

    • @SailorCheryl
      @SailorCheryl Před měsícem

      ​@@sonneversets3530bull...shit... Pure ignorance and deniance of reality.

  • @jojojorisjhjosef
    @jojojorisjhjosef Před 7 lety +276

    Maybe the reason some penguins just start walking is for the same reason humans just cross the ocean for no reason, and go into space for no reason. It's the beauty of evolution. Only an idiot knows better than the genius.

    • @swedish0guy
      @swedish0guy Před 7 lety +14

      Humans usually survive when we explore, this penguin just went to certain death

    • @Wrathborn771
      @Wrathborn771 Před 7 lety +32

      The penguin doesn't know that though. The vikings didn't know what they were going into whilst sailing the seas, finding england. It was told there was only certain death and/or infinite sea rather than new lands and new people.

    • @Sabrowsky
      @Sabrowsky Před 7 lety +8

      Actually, the "vikings" (quotation marks because the word viking means a looting/trading/colonization trip instead of the more common erroneus denomination of a people) did, seeing as the jutes and danes were directly involved in taking britain from the britonnic peoples after the romans left in the fifth century, even estabilishing a few colonies of their own before the anglo-saxons incorporated them into the newly formed kingdoms.
      Basically the scandinavians were well aware of the existense of an island, hell, they were sailing there for centuries already.
      So, when the first looting Viking (as in expedition) arrived in Lindisfarne it wasnt a completely unknown enemy, just an unexpected one, seeing as they had a longstanding trading relationship with the Northumbrian kingdom

    • @MCVessels
      @MCVessels Před 4 lety +12

      @@swedish0guy No we don't! The people who come back and tell us the story of these great, undiscovered places, they survive. We never hear from the people who have gone out there and died, so we're largely unaware of their deaths.

    • @deltoroperdedor3166
      @deltoroperdedor3166 Před 3 lety +3

      I think it's the penguin version of going into the sea to drown, except it's into a barren wasteland, since penguins are good swimmers

  • @colinharter4094
    @colinharter4094 Před 3 lety +115

    Attenborough: "But why? Scientists are still unable to explain this aberrant and counterintuitive behavior."
    Herzog: " "But why?" [Silence]

    • @ericocccams5865
      @ericocccams5865 Před rokem +7

      herzog lets the penguin go attenborough takes the penguin and puts it in a zoo with other penguins to rehabilitate it

    • @Atlink
      @Atlink Před rokem +12

      Silence is powerful when used properly.

    • @sunsetvista877
      @sunsetvista877 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Penguin: "Why ask"?

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@Atlink Herzog once said it frustrated him when filmmakers didn't let the silence speak.

  • @Eddddddddddyz
    @Eddddddddddyz Před 3 lety +173

    He’s not a nihilist. He’s an artist.

    • @mitenka222
      @mitenka222 Před 8 měsíci

      Ну тут уж как пойдёт! Может исследователь территории.

    • @IsaiahINRI
      @IsaiahINRI Před 5 měsíci +4

      He's an existentialist penguin

    • @ShawnLevasseur
      @ShawnLevasseur Před měsícem

      Are we still talking about the penguin or Werner himself?

    • @SWProductions100
      @SWProductions100 Před měsícem

      ​@ShawnLevasseur
      I not too familiar with nihilism or Herzog - but from what I understand, nihilism is more a focus on being good despite the lack of meaning.
      And Herzog seems he could have both artistry and this hopeful nihilism.
      I don't know about the penguin.

  • @AbAb-th5qe
    @AbAb-th5qe Před 10 měsíci +99

    I think that penguin is truly alive. We are all heading towards certain death, but not everyone realises this. He will see what few other penguins ever will.

    • @otten5666
      @otten5666 Před 6 měsíci +8

      Snow and ice?

    • @AbAb-th5qe
      @AbAb-th5qe Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@otten5666 all penguins see that anyway. Likely most wouldn't be able to imagine anything else. They lack any other experience you see.

    • @otten5666
      @otten5666 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@AbAb-th5qe That was the lame joke I made. It doesn't matter where this little adventurer goes, it's all snow and ice.
      But I applaud the little guy for trying to reach for more than what the colony has to offer.

    • @AbAb-th5qe
      @AbAb-th5qe Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@otten5666 Why does anyone go holiday? It's just more trees and rocks. It certainly is a lame joke. Actually rocks might be quite novel to a penguin. They're only little.

    • @otten5666
      @otten5666 Před 6 měsíci +3

      ​@@AbAb-th5qe I go on holiday for parties and ladies. Enjoy looking at rocks and trees.

  • @Jackjohnjay
    @Jackjohnjay Před 6 měsíci +41

    He’s a Carthusian. This penguin was simply called by God up into the mountains like great mystics and monks long ago. The music was perfect. Pray for us brother

    • @garcalej
      @garcalej Před 4 měsíci +1

      No god in those mountains except Cthulu, the Devourer.

  • @n0tarealdoctor
    @n0tarealdoctor Před rokem +90

    Scientist: So what do you want to know about? Feeding habits? Mating habits? How they interact with each other?
    Werner Herzog: can a penguin go insane

    • @romanec3764
      @romanec3764 Před 10 měsíci +1

      😂😂

    • @fragdude
      @fragdude Před 9 měsíci +3

      Talk about a guy that should be the moderator for all presidential debates.
      Now *that* would be a show.

    • @zachjones6944
      @zachjones6944 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Actually, mental illness in animals is a facet of behavioral ecology.

    • @notinspectorgadget
      @notinspectorgadget Před 3 dny

      Scientist: um, well...

  • @grispymohtajeb3471
    @grispymohtajeb3471 Před 11 měsíci +6

    I cried! I really cried with this shit! When Werner Herzog said "But Why?" I couldn't hold it!

  • @sibdebusiness4010
    @sibdebusiness4010 Před 8 lety +255

    Both sad and beautiful, the music was a good touch.

  • @MrXetios
    @MrXetios Před 6 lety +68

    Everyone else my age is getting married and starting a family and here I am like:

    • @geniusloccikukeri
      @geniusloccikukeri Před 3 lety +13

      like... but WHY?

    • @kooroshrostami27
      @kooroshrostami27 Před 2 lety +2

      And yet they will all die and all their children will bear the burden of knowing they have to die. None will find lasting meaning or happiness. Time to wake up!

    • @bloodyhell8201
      @bloodyhell8201 Před 9 měsíci +3

      ​@@kooroshrostami27nihilist begone.

  • @Osmann45
    @Osmann45 Před rokem +69

    Even heading to his death his waddles are still absolutely adorable

  • @ianroberts2470
    @ianroberts2470 Před rokem +33

    The s-l-o-w fade to black at the end of the clip is a sign of ultimate respect to the little guy from a great filmmaker.

  • @rong2912
    @rong2912 Před 7 lety +213

    We are all heading towards certain death...

    • @djrobbie7717
      @djrobbie7717 Před 4 lety +2

      I'm sad for all brother :(

    • @Itstwofourteen
      @Itstwofourteen Před 4 lety +3

      Yup, we all got one life.
      Act accordingly 🍻

    • @no_i_dont_want_no_slugs
      @no_i_dont_want_no_slugs Před 3 lety +2

      /snaps fingers repeatedly/

    • @CaioAraujoRibeiro
      @CaioAraujoRibeiro Před 3 lety

      "...And yet here we are for the moment alive. Each of us knowing we are going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't"

    • @nowhereman6019
      @nowhereman6019 Před 2 lety +3

      Let's head to the mountains on the way there.

  • @thelostronin
    @thelostronin Před rokem +32

    That penguin was the Werner Herzog of his colony - utterly unique and determined to tell his own story

  • @UNATCOHanka
    @UNATCOHanka Před 6 měsíci +5

    1:35 After one last look at the cameraman as if to say goodbye, the penguin marches ahead towards the mountains that will lead him to heaven.

  • @jaidaniels905
    @jaidaniels905 Před 3 lety +17

    "Appel du Vide", The call of the void.
    You ever get a strange feeling when driving, that you can suddenly turn your wheel and it'll all come to end? The French call it L'Appel du Vide.
    This penguin has answered that call.

  • @horricule451
    @horricule451 Před 6 lety +337

    I want to be like Werner Herzog when I grow older

  • @thofabyq
    @thofabyq Před 7 lety +667

    This is evolution. some day a penguin will succeed

    • @dryued6874
      @dryued6874 Před 7 lety +36

      We rise.

    • @LegoWorld1231
      @LegoWorld1231 Před 7 lety +81

      that penguin was like fuck routine and decided to explore the world until it dies because the world is beautiful

    • @Bobby.Kristensen
      @Bobby.Kristensen Před 7 lety +20

      If that effort makes that penguin have more offspring than those who do not do this then yes - this is evolution. If not, then this behavior will likely die out. But it could also be a kind of behavior that won't be corrected, because it's such a deep rooted flaw in their DNA that all penguins have a certain likelihood of doing this.

    • @zanthor5422
      @zanthor5422 Před 7 lety +4

      There's also the possibility that something external is affecting them, though I doubt it.

    • @daronstube
      @daronstube Před 7 lety +14

      probably Ancient Aliens

  • @1Live2Love3Thrive
    @1Live2Love3Thrive Před 2 lety +9

    Werner Herzog is the dark humorous version of David Attenborough.

  • @elementofnaivity
    @elementofnaivity Před 5 lety +45

    He's surfing on his belly towards certain death

  • @DonnieDarko1
    @DonnieDarko1 Před 7 lety +274

    PGTOW
    Penguins Going Their Own Way.

  • @MrArtisticjay
    @MrArtisticjay Před 7 lety +45

    when complexity ends and entropy's on full throttle

  • @brightonfunds
    @brightonfunds Před 8 měsíci +18

    This is either really sad or really the story of a hero who has a unique calling.

  • @kerryscott3287
    @kerryscott3287 Před 8 měsíci +5

    He's single, his mate likely died, he lost his egg, He's now an explorer, maybe travel is on his bucket list. Is it deranged to not grind out an existence

  • @helveticaneptune537
    @helveticaneptune537 Před 6 lety +33

    Penguin suffering from existential angst

  • @shadowfox6438
    @shadowfox6438 Před 7 lety +24

    "I'm tired of your shit, Larry"

  • @MrBacktotheroot
    @MrBacktotheroot Před rokem +97

    This video once saved my live. Never brought up the courage to speak out about my, lets call them, mental difficulties and dark wishes after immersing into the void.
    Myself was on the knives edge. So i simply told my parents, that my problems are feeling like this little guy. Luckily my parents understood what I was about.

    • @gabrielgingras814
      @gabrielgingras814 Před 8 měsíci +16

      By dooming his life, this penguin saved yours. I hope you're living life brother.

    • @alexvaldiers9788
      @alexvaldiers9788 Před 6 měsíci +4

      I write books about the feeling of not belonging anywhere. I don’t know how many people feel like but if you can touch one other person like this penguin did it’s enough.

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Před 9 dny +2

      What a great way to approach the subject with your parents. It must've been hard still. I hope you're still on the road to recovery, or at least not ending up like the penguin. Best of luck.

    • @MrBacktotheroot
      @MrBacktotheroot Před 6 dny

      @@jasondashney I was afraid to answer to my own comment. but I would like to thank you for your answer. I'm doing good by now. clean and sober for almost three months and enjoying life on a different basis. I'm trying my best to accept my past and see this for a sign to get to know myself again, or in a different way.

    • @MrBacktotheroot
      @MrBacktotheroot Před 6 dny +1

      @@gabrielgingras814 thank you unknown friend. here as well, I was afraid to answer my own comment since it came from a deep point. but I'm living life. As a new me. Getting to know myself again. I never replied but found my self more then once reading your few words. thank you brother.

  • @saidtoshimaru1832
    @saidtoshimaru1832 Před 3 lety +29

    The Penguin march: Films the whole colony working together to countinue life.
    Herzog: Films the only penguin that goes by itself to die alone.

  • @DetectiveAndrey
    @DetectiveAndrey Před 7 lety +64

    Penguin! ;( We will not forget you! R.I.P.

    • @Toto-95
      @Toto-95 Před 5 lety +5

      bet you forgot

    • @honoraryanglo2929
      @honoraryanglo2929 Před 5 lety +5

      Legend says he lives in those mountains now

    • @dlewis9760
      @dlewis9760 Před 2 měsíci

      ​ @Toto-95 I've been back 3 or 4 times to watch this over the years. I haven't.

  • @hanshintermann1551
    @hanshintermann1551 Před 4 lety +48

    This is lowkey heartbreaking.

  • @leonconnelly5303
    @leonconnelly5303 Před 6 měsíci +11

    This is the most beautifully tragic thing, the penguin despite its lack of intellect is expressing the human desire for the unknown willingly or not. He is a kindred spirit to our condition, a brethren of the madness that drive us further

  • @pretanxiouspretanxious7156
    @pretanxiouspretanxious7156 Před 2 lety +26

    One of the most moving scenes ever.

  • @sunsetnoiser
    @sunsetnoiser Před 7 lety +44

    this is pure brilliance

  • @RogueScythe
    @RogueScythe Před 6 lety +312

    Not nihilistic, it just needed something more out of life. A new challenge, a new world. It needed to get away from the tedium. Deviation is the precursor to evolution and growth.
    There is a profound sadness about knowing the direction and fate of lesser creatures as they go about their lives, and the hardships inherent in the path that this one has embarked upon. We know how it will end, but we hope that it will not regret its life that was spent simply doing what it wanted to do.

    • @williamtrottier6865
      @williamtrottier6865 Před 4 lety +4

      😮

    • @sonnyboyduffy8399
      @sonnyboyduffy8399 Před 4 lety +5

      Yeah it was gonna audition for the part of skipper

    • @Aighthandle
      @Aighthandle Před 4 lety +16

      Imagine calling penguins lesser in 2020. Have you seen an American politician

    • @lonestarlibrarian1853
      @lonestarlibrarian1853 Před 2 lety

      @@Aighthandle Let’s be honest, while it can be a funny joke to call humans stupid, even people with actual mental disabilities perform at or above the level of the smartest animals.

    • @Aighthandle
      @Aighthandle Před 2 lety

      @@lonestarlibrarian1853 are you a child or a libertarian? Very difficult to tell.

  • @nopenahman7380
    @nopenahman7380 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Beyond the Mountains of Madness.... There are penguins.

  • @RitosM
    @RitosM Před 9 měsíci +7

    He just wants to explore what is within the vast mountains. He is truly enlightened, and broke out of the system. He is not nihilist, but rather the opposite, finding adventure in the mundane life of the average penguin.

  • @raltommo
    @raltommo Před 7 lety +169

    Je suis Penguin.

    • @dee7793
      @dee7793 Před 6 lety

      hahahahahhahaxD

    • @RRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
      @RRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH Před 3 lety +2

      JE SUIS LE SOLEIL

    • @sirjazz5776
      @sirjazz5776 Před 3 lety

      Alors oui, c'est tragique et terrifiant, bouleversant même de voir se manchot se diriger vers une mort assurée ; parfaitement inébranlable . . .
      Mais moi, bah... con comme je suis...
      J'suis désolé...
      Tout c'que je vois c'est le pingouin qui pars en solo dans la cambrousse pour aller rendre une quête à un PNJ derrière la p***in de montagne ! x'D

    • @krimskrams
      @krimskrams Před 3 lety

      lol

    • @han3wmanwukong125
      @han3wmanwukong125 Před 3 lety

      LOL!

  • @RustinChole
    @RustinChole Před 9 měsíci +3

    I’m not crying. You’re crying.

  • @101......
    @101...... Před 9 měsíci +13

    He had his calling. Not a mere Nihilist, Mr. Penguin's a Existentialist. It's what he does that actually defines him. Moving towards the mountains, as if he has finally found something bigger than his ownself. May the force be with him.

  • @jarjarissnoke532
    @jarjarissnoke532 Před 6 lety +68

    "can a penguin go insane" is a beautiful question that hardly needs an answer ; only vulgar questions need to be answered.

  • @herpderpmonkey
    @herpderpmonkey Před 7 lety +26

    I'd get kicked right the fuck out of Antarctica.
    The first thing I'd do there is start chasing the penguins and trying to cuddle one. Look how adorable those little shits are when they waddle! 2:00

    • @appleshampew
      @appleshampew Před 7 lety +12

      Same. I just want to pick it up and make it look at me.

  • @meierhuber6709
    @meierhuber6709 Před 7 lety +25

    Years later, the Penguin becomes a important Villian. The people and Batman will come him, Penguin.

  • @chimayred6492
    @chimayred6492 Před 2 lety +9

    Poor penguin, this made me cry.

  • @averytijerina3425
    @averytijerina3425 Před 9 měsíci +4

    Love it, the music makes it seem like the penguin is searching for something greater.

  • @michaelteret4763
    @michaelteret4763 Před rokem +19

    We’re all heading toward certain death. Respect to the penguin who follows his own path!

    • @sonneversets3530
      @sonneversets3530 Před 10 měsíci

      But our souls live on...forever.
      In the place we choose for ourselves.
      There’s only 2.
      Choose wisely.✝

  • @jacklambert1521
    @jacklambert1521 Před 4 měsíci +7

    1:47 The combination of Herzog calling the penguin deranged and watching the little guy Naruto run towards certain death makes me cry with laughter 😂

  • @taintwasher3703
    @taintwasher3703 Před 2 lety +13

    when he looked back over his shoulder at the other penguins then continued on I identified with this penguin so hard

  • @TasteTheRambo
    @TasteTheRambo Před 3 lety +6

    1:08 that little waddle as he brazenly walks towards his demise

  • @anastasijac.r8732
    @anastasijac.r8732 Před rokem +8

    This is literally the best documentary I’ve ever seen

  • @mrhombreman
    @mrhombreman Před 6 lety +106

    I love Herzog and find his ontology of structuralized anguish quite compelling

  • @eggr1ce374
    @eggr1ce374 Před 10 dny +1

    I don’t know why, but there is something beautiful about this. Perhaps the penguin is compelled by some force. I do hope the journey is fruitful in some way. Herzog could also narrate almost anything and have me captivated.

  • @kaboulscabal4816
    @kaboulscabal4816 Před 4 lety +74

    But WHY?
    Nihilist Penguin ... you're the most "Werner Herzog" thing on CZcams there is.
    Just sayin' ...

  • @hoopoverthehill
    @hoopoverthehill Před 4 lety +5

    Werner Herzog should narrate lovecraft stories

  • @malcolmliang
    @malcolmliang Před 8 měsíci +6

    Elon Musk recommended watch of the day.

  • @zomalfa4363
    @zomalfa4363 Před 8 dny +1

    Its interesting that the penguin stopped and looked back.

  • @blimpslap2
    @blimpslap2 Před 7 lety +27

    I feel ya penguin

  • @maeve_a
    @maeve_a Před 3 lety +33

    You know, if one penguin, just one penguin does it, they may think he's really sick and he won't make it. And if two penguins, two penguins do it, in harmony, they may think they're both crazy and they won't make it either. And if three penguins do it, three, can you imagine, three penguins walking off, singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and heading for the mountain. They may think it's an Organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty penguins a day, I said fifty penguins a day walking off singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking towards the mountain... friends they may think it's a movement.

    • @lesleyedgley8371
      @lesleyedgley8371 Před rokem

      👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😁😁

    • @liltick102
      @liltick102 Před rokem

      Sheeesh

    • @liltick102
      @liltick102 Před rokem

      Sounds like a Hunter S Thompson quote

    • @maeve_a
      @maeve_a Před rokem +3

      @@liltick102 does a bit. But it's right out of Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie. 😏

    • @dlewis9760
      @dlewis9760 Před 2 měsíci +2

      I occasionally pass by the road to Arlo's house. You can see it from the main drag, Rt 8. When I do, I think of that song. Does the Penguin sit on the Group W bench?

  • @itsrando3923
    @itsrando3923 Před 3 lety +262

    “One of these disoriented or deranged penguins”
    I like to think that the little penguin was not confused nor crazy, he was just ahead of the curve. He acknowledged that he and his other penguin friends would spend their lives killing other living things for food, and trying not to be killed themselves. All while condemning themselves to years of servitude to an egg which would continue the everlasting cycle. In that moment when he looked both ways, he decided he wanted no part in it all. He went about his own path and searched for something he himself didnt know even existed. Maybe he was searching for freedom, maybe not. Regardless, he waddled off into the frozen lands, and disobeyed his instinctual coding to stay with his group, hunt, and reproduce; all while knowing inevitable death stood before him with open arms. In my eyes, this is the bravest little creature ive witnessed. I pray in time, all living things will be free of this cruel world.

  • @son_of_mxry
    @son_of_mxry Před 5 měsíci +6

    Never felt more close to a penguin before 🖤

  • @BrownEyedHighGirL
    @BrownEyedHighGirL Před 7 lety +23

    I feel you, little friend!

  • @JordanVanRyn
    @JordanVanRyn Před rokem +6

    This isn't "March of the Penguins", this is "March of the Existential Penguin".

  • @macavitymacavity
    @macavitymacavity Před 9 měsíci +4

    This scene has haunted me forever

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch Před 7 lety +69

    this one penguin is my spirit animal

  • @michaelcastady6600
    @michaelcastady6600 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Thus Spoke Nihilist Penguin

  • @gyomen
    @gyomen Před rokem +43

    I relate more to that penguin than the average person on a daily basis

    • @Drizzt_Do_Entreri
      @Drizzt_Do_Entreri Před 9 měsíci +3

      But why?

    • @redkop510
      @redkop510 Před 8 měsíci +1

      People are,let's face it not nice.

    • @sonneversets3530
      @sonneversets3530 Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@redkop510 Especially now.
      Only going to get worse.
      Much...⌛
      Hope you know Jesus before it does....✝

  • @JX-jk9qn
    @JX-jk9qn Před 3 lety +18

    This is one of the most beautiful things I´ve heard and seen. Thank you, master Herzog.

  • @mtrps_
    @mtrps_ Před 3 lety +6

    conan got me here lmao

  • @sandykemp7562
    @sandykemp7562 Před 3 lety +17

    I love thought provoking material like this.
    Perhaps this is an insight into evolutionary processes that perhaps millions of years ago lead to primal forms of humanity leaving their cradles of life and spreading across the globe, eventually leading to us becoming the dominant species.
    Maybe one day one of these “insane” penguins will make it to wherever they’re being drawn and survive, leading to a new era of penguin development and behaviour.
    Maybe.

    • @thewalkingjoke3843
      @thewalkingjoke3843 Před 6 měsíci +1

      No, because a lone penguin won’t be able to reproduce