Things You Learn in an Essay Film Class

1. You really, really want Morgan Freeman to play a daddy penguin. You just don’t know it until you’ve seen the original French March of the Penguins (La marche de l’empereur in French).

2. There are emus on the Isle de France.

3. Agnès Varda is a badass little old lady. And a badass film director.

4.  If you don’t like cats, you’re wrong.

5. Going behind the scenes at a museum is about 20 times more interesting than catching a whale, no matter what Captain Ahab might say.

6. There will be emus in the zone.

7. We will all be emus in the zone.

There will be emus in the zone.