Fridae

Who would have thought that these short, clumsy creatures can teach
human being so much about life and love?

But that's exactly what they do in this amazing documentary by
French director Luc Jacquet, who spent a year freezing in Antartica
in order to film the breeding cycles of emperor penguins.

Emperor penguins live in one of Earth's harshest environment, yet
they survive year after year, finding love and raising children.
Facing cruel blizzards of up to 150 mph and freezing in temperatures
as low as 80 degrees below, they make their way to the mating ground
at the same time every year.

There they pair off two by two, and begin their beautiful and monogamous
romance which would result in the laying of an egg. Life doesn't
get any easier after that, as hard sacrifices still have to be made
to raise the young. Sometimes tragedy strikes, as in the case of
one distraught penguin mother which loses her young chick and lets
out the saddest, most heartbreaking sound in the world.

Whether or not you like nature documentaries, you'll still find
a lot of drama in March of the Penguins that can be compared
to human struggles.

Indeed, if you can learn to be as strong, resilient and optimistic
as these penguins, there is probably nothing that you can't achieve.
And being part of a sexual minority, learning to be stronger will
do us a whole lot of good!