Kill the bear in my heart

Adeline 2022-01-02 08:01:43

Movies always tell stories, and some stories rely on plot to win. Once the ending is known early, re-watching becomes dull. Some stories contain profound philosophies and human emotions. Every time I watch them, especially after I have experienced some people and things-the process of re-examining the film has also become a process of re-examining myself. Interrogate your own soul in other people’s stories: what did you pick up and what you lost; what you got and what you lost; what you gained, and what you gave?

The film takes the vast Alaska of North America as the background. It is a still world and a freezing moment. The solemn mountains and rivers are covered with white snow, slowly pulling apart under the sweep of the big vision lens. The snow-capped mountains and lakes that have been quietly guarding for thousands of years, in the gray and distant layout, the picture looks a little depressed, the earth is too calm, and it always makes people feel that something is going to happen. The sky is wide and far-reaching, and the red seaplane roars in the sky, suggesting the noisy desire of human beings under the calm appearance.
The Kodiak brown bear is undoubtedly the master of this virgin forest, and it firmly occupies the top of the food chain with its huge size. Enough to swallow all the creatures on this land. It is also full of symbolic meaning throughout the film, representing desire, cruelty and wildness. This bear hides in a corner of our heart. Once it smells the temptation of blood, it suddenly roars and devours our souls. It was the winter of the soul, and the bear walked alone on the white background, which was very clear.

The first appearance of the brown bear in the film was in the birthday party prepared for Charlie. In fact, it was pretended by fashion photographer Barney. This is the first confrontation between two male protagonists, or the first confrontation between humanity and wildness. This is the first conflict arranged in the film. Charlie, who went downstairs to make sandwiches for his wife, represents tenderness and passion, the ham on the chopping board represents hidden sensuality, and Barney's appearance as a brown bear represents the transpiration of desire. The ending is obvious, human nature is always so powerless in front of desire.

The aborigines warned visitors at the beginning of the film, “When there are bears killing people, when encountering a brown bear, the first choice should not be to run away immediately, but rather to look at each other and then slowly back away, in order to let the brown bear know. I saw it". Because of the plane crash, Charlie and his party were trapped in the wilderness, and the brown bear had a real chance to play. The lens shows a close-up of Charlie and the brown bear looking at each other. The frame arranges the brown bear on the left with only one head exposed to reduce its specific gravity, and Charlie stands on the right. This also represents the first examination of human nature's desire. The overall composition of the picture is balanced and symmetrical, implying the power of human nature's self-control. So, can desire really be restrained and retired?

In the third confrontation with the brown bear, almost all the pictures were given a panoramic view, and in order to strengthen the proportion and deterrence, and to render the atmosphere of horror and brutality, it was deliberately arranged on the right side of the picture. Under the special effects lens, the black bear stands upright with its front legs, pressing against their black companion like a mountain, occupying half of the screen. Human nature appears so helpless under the pressure of desire, torn and gnawed arbitrarily.

When the desire is partially satisfied, the rhythm is temporarily relieved, and human nature seems to be able to escape the complete control of desire by luck. But the fact is not. Desire is like a sleeping brown bear. Once awakened, it will follow. Weakness, retreat and even escape are the nature of human beings. However, driven by desire, human nature has nowhere to escape, or allow it to wreak havoc and devour our body and soul; Strangle-kill the bear in your heart.
All things that seem to be powerful have their fatal weaknesses, and any advantage itself is also a disadvantage itself. The huge body of the brown bear is its strength, and it also threw itself on the tip of the spear because of its own weight. Charlie finally used the most primitive wisdom to cleverly kill the brown bear with his extraordinary courage.

It is desire itself that destroys desire, and it is desire itself that overcomes desire. The former is greed and jealousy, and the latter is life and existence. Just like the shotgun that appeared immediately in the film, it became a murder weapon in Barney's hands. When Charlie carried Barney from the trap to the hut, we saw that the shotgun became a fixed piece of broken bones. The tool was tied to Barney's leg. There is hardwood in the trap, and the director chose this shotgun. The intention is self-evident: it was the one that killed the person and the other that saved the person. It is desire that leads mankind out of the wild, and desire can also lead mankind to extinction.

They went to find the bear hunter, and from beginning to end, the bear hunter only appeared in the photo. Several times at a critical juncture, we all thought that he would fall from the sky, accompanied by a crisp gunshot, appearing behind the smoking barrel. However, all conjectures are just fantasy, and the bear hunter is like a legend in the wind, always hidden behind the story. Perhaps, as Charlie has always emphasized in the film: People lost in the wild die of shame.
We always waste time in waiting, ignoring that self-help is the only way out.

The earth is simple and elegant. Maybe everyone has a bear in his heart, but it often hibernates. One day, it may be awakened, but that state is temporary. I always believe that a calm mind is eternal.

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Extended Reading
  • Jerrold 2022-04-20 09:01:52

    Grind ice into prisms to reflect sunlight to make fire, won't the ice melt?

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    What is the action article of the Wilderness Survival Code?

The Edge quotes

  • Charles Morse: Today, I'm-a-gonna-kill the mutha fucka.

  • Robert Green: [Eating] Wish we had some salt.

    Charles Morse: You know, you can, uh... you can season meat with gunpowder. Did you know that?

    Robert Green: Wish we had some gunpowder.