Pepe

  • Drama
7/18/2024
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A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

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      • Geronimo1967

        If youve ever been to Karnak or Luxor and wandered through the temples, you can easily imagine the sound of the ancient Egyptian deities philosophising in husky tones about mortality as they adopt their animalistic manifestations. One would be a hippo, and though hes unlikely to have been called Pepe, his would be a discourse on this beasts association with humanity, with his fellow creatures and - somewhat inexplicably, his journey to Colombia where he is now facing army sharpshooters who want to stop him terrorising the locals in the river. The theistic contrast works quite well here because the film itself is an hybrid of drama and natural history film. Set both in Colombia where hippos are not native, and in Namibia where they are more ...

        December 14, 2025

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