"In the Depths of the Ocean"-the human tragedy in the wild era

Alyson 2021-11-28 08:01:20

Xiao Li's award-winning brought the movie "The Wilderness Hunter" to the hottest. The most talked about is Xiaolizi, not the American barbaric era described in "The Wilderness Hunter". It also ignores the ideological and reflective characteristics of the movie itself. And in 2015, there was also a film "Depth of the Ocean" that reflected the true historical story of 1820. There was no too dazzling star, that is, the hammer brother Hemsworth in "Thor", and it did not form. Hot spot, but the story itself is more torn people's nerves than "Wild Hunter", which is to say the shocking tragedy of the Essex whaling ship.

Speaking of whaling, it is a rather unfamiliar thing in a mainland country like China. What people may know is that only Japan is still hunting whaling. All my knowledge about whaling comes from a small person I saw when I was a child. The book "Whaling", that little man book at least let me know how whaling is. However, what happened in the 1950s is no longer a sequel to such a story in China today. Whales are now very precious animals. Now even if the whale washes up on the beach, animal protection organizations will spare no effort to help. It returns to the ocean.

Biology tells us that whales are not fish. They not only breathe air, but also conceive and give birth like humans, and they also feed baby whales with milk. They are original terrestrial mammals, but due to natural changes, they are bad. Yang Cuo became the overlord of the ocean. But since humans have mastered the navigation technology and can sail across the ocean, whales have become a terrible enemy.

As the movie "Wild Hunter" said, the Americas was still a barren era in 1820. At that time, people had only one purpose for killing whales, which was to obtain whale oil from whales. Whale oil was the only purpose that could be used to light oil lamps, except The torches that existed long before that, kerosene lamps, gas lamps, and electric lamps were all invented decades later. At that time, objectively speaking, humans had almost killed the whales in the offshore waters, and whalers had to go to farther and more dangerous waters to find their prey. Now people know that whales are huge, and whaling must have large ships and well-trained teams, of course, there must be sufficient funds, that is, there must be a commercial whaling company to operate these, these are the front of this movie The background information to be explained, and only these things will happen in the movie.

When talking about whaling, my common sense comes from the little book. People who are familiar with American literature may have knowledge from Moby-Dick, author Herman Melville (Herman Melville 1819—1891), Yes, he is the young man who appeared at the beginning of the movie who bought stories from the old man. He hasn't had creative inspiration and creative themes for a long time, even though he is very poor. "Moby Dick" is actually derived from this story. The story depicts Captain Ahab fighting against the white whale, and finally die with the white whale, showing the heroic and passion of mankind to overcome nature. Just as whale oil has brought light to ordinary people and improved the lives of whalers, this whaling-themed novel has also improved the life plight of the writer Melville. The movie stated that he bought the story in 1850, and it has been 30 years since the shipwreck of the "Essex".

The fact is that the whaling ship Essex was hit and sunk in a struggle with whales. The captain, chief mate, and several people survived. They experienced long-term drifting at sea and encountered unimaginable hardships and hardships. Purgatory. This experience made them silent. Just as the author of the film said at the end of the movie, it was after careful adaptation and modification that it became a positive energy story of fighting against the sky, the sea and the whale. And this movie is to restore the true story that is not easy to tell.

In fact, the bad-tempered old man in the movie is one of the survivors in the same story. The whaling story he told the young man is the true story he experienced 30 years ago, but "Moby Dick" disappeared. After the shipwreck, there is no real experience of the people who died. These stories are neither romantic nor beautiful. They are even disgusting and disgusting. They will only have a well-fed, energetic, and confident society 200 years later. Will be mentioned, just like the story of the movie "Wild Hunter" mentioned earlier. Nowadays, it is made into a movie. Some stories are hidden under the lens. It seems to be mentioned only incidentally. It seems objective and true. In a movie, some people saw the whaling, some saw the scenery, and some people regarded this movie as Disaster film, some people say that his sound subwoofer is going to be shaken out. In fact, what I saw was helpless. This is a story that can only be told after wearing so many vests. This is actually a movie about cannibalism.

In fact, I saw a detailed report about the whaling ship "Essex" written on the front. A newspaper called "Southern Weekend" from China published the author as Duan Muyun's long report "The Sperm Whale's Revenge: A Record of the Whaling Shipwreck of the USS Essex" (Note).

Of course, for an incident nearly 200 years ago, the author of this article, like Herman Melville, could not personally interview and write this report. This article also comes from the historical data the author has read. It is estimated that there is " "Moby Dick", here is a detailed description of this incident. 2014 was a year when freedom and democracy were rampant in China. The most common word in the media and forums was votes. After reading so many irrelevant texts, I found that the author actually wanted to say that when these survivors decided who to eat, It is a democratic drawing of lots. Later, according to the reviewer's research, the content of the article should be partly derived from the book "The Revenge of the Whale", author Nathaniel Philbrick, should also be one of the source of the story of this movie.

That’s right, the movie "Depth of the Sea" is actually a story about the survivors relying on cannibalism and other people to survive. Speaking out, just like the way this movie is expressed.

The craze for Hollywood shipwreck films started with Cameron’s 1997 movie classic "Titanic". By the way, it was the one that brought the handsome boy Leonardo DiCaprio to the audience. 20 years later, Xiao Li Zi won the best actor with "Wild Hunter". Disaster is a tragedy. There is always something to think about. Moreover, this shipwreck movie has also swept the global box office of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars. Because it is so profitable, a large number of shipwreck movies will soon be produced. There were in 2000. "Perfect Storm" and "Pearl Harbor" have been released consecutively. In fact, if it weren’t for the box office miracle of "Titanic", the scripts of these movies might have become waste paper without knowing it. If there was no "Titanic", the 1995 "Future Water World" would have been The Hollywood bosses were silent on the sea-themed movie. The movie invested 180 million US dollars, but only sold a fraction of this figure. The huge prop ship sank into the sea twice, destroyed an airplane, and suffered casualties. , The protagonist Kevin Costner has never recovered, and the professional glory brought by "Dancing with Wolves" in 1990 has quickly disappeared.

The story of "Pearl Harbor" should be an air combat movie. I don’t know how it was made into a marine theme. This movie tells the story of pilots from beginning to end. Because of the popularity of marine disaster movies, the story of the shipwreck has been strengthened. , The place of dating has become a harbor, the place of fighting has become an island and beach, and the place of shipwreck and rescue has become a harbor, so it becomes unknowingly. The shipwreck movie makes people have to admire the film director. And the magic hand of the producer, roar.

Since the audience has watched movies with bad sea problems for so many years, 200 years later, I will shoot the disaster of a small whaling ship. The result is like "Moby Dick", even if it is not enough to attract the audience. , But cannibalism is different. Houhou, Ang Lee’s "Fantasy Drifting of Juvenile Pie" hasn’t been long yet. Actually, it’s also about cannibalism. It’s just that everyone only saw the tiger and remembered the relationship between man and nature. Environmental protection seems to be a beautiful journey. In fact, everyone forgot to forget the end of the movie. The people from the insurance company who did not believe his story at the end of the movie burst into tears. His journey was actually very tragic.

(There is language violence in this paragraph, please pay attention! If you don’t like it, please skip
it yourself ) However, the Junior Pie is still an enemy to eat after all. "Wild Hunter" hunts and kills the enemy, but a whaling boat is hit by a sperm whale that it hunts down. Shen, who should you hate? Did other whales provoke you thousands of kilometers away? You go to take other people's oil to make money for their lives. Isn't it enough for them to struggle for a while? The key is that the broken ship of yours is not strong enough. When the human ship hits an iceberg and sinks in a storm, it can only be blamed on bad luck. Who else makes you like to say "God can't let it sink", but it's not all Do you say that God is omnipotent? Everyone is made by God. I didn't kill the whale. I can only say that God didn't want to care about you, a mentally retarded fool. In the ocean, whales are the darling of God, just as only dinosaurs were the darling of God from 60 million to 200 million years ago. If you firmly believe that there will be a God like you at that time. Who said that God is not trying to let humans prove their cold-blooded, stupid, and cruel?

At the beginning of "Depth of the Sea", just like the usual American movies, this migrant worker left his warm home and went out to earn money to support his family. His vocational skills were whaling and management of whaling ships, but he later found out that he was hired. His whaling company did not let him be the captain, but used a rich second generation of an inexperienced shipowner as the captain, so contradictions and conflicts naturally arise. Although it is not as strong as I expected, after all, this is a business cooperation. Everyone has to make money together. Moreover, there is nothing wrong with the shipowner sending his own people to watch the ship’s own ship. Pirates were rampant in those days, and there were often The ship was driven away by pirates. Netizens have verified that the real experience of the hunter protagonist Glass in "The Wilderness Hunter" is that he has been a pirate. But Americans don't feel ashamed of being a pirate, or they wouldn't make the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, but also made an adventure comedy. The ancestors of Americans are different from the Chinese. There is no "San Zi Jing" and "Tao De Jing" to restrain them. They might think, isn't it just killing some people and grabbing some money! This is the cultural barrier. In the 1990s, there was actually a pirate love action movie "Cut Throat", which was about a female pirate. I really like the music on it. If you only watch movies, many people may think that being a pirate is a romantic, free and glorious thing.

The story of this movie is such a tepid development. When the two of them walked out of the storm and let go of their differences and agreed to go to the farther waters to hunt whaling, I already knew what the movie wanted to tell. And the focus of the story is not on the conflict between them, or even the conflict between humans and whales. I remembered the entire content of

the report I saw 2 years ago. This movie is about the conflict between life instinct and conscience. The key is that the report used this story to say the importance of implementing democracy. Are you okay? You elect and come out and eat him. I’m not talking about cannibalism, disgusting, digging and processing the internal organs, shave the meat, and deliver it to your mouth. In this process, you can use your brain to make up for it. Said it is the result of democracy, is it to slap yourself or let others do it? If democracy can do everything according to instinct, then I still think that autocracy that can't just eat people is better.

I won’t repeat the plot at the back of the movie. It is similar to the content reported in the newspaper. Finally, after fighting with the heavens and the earth, fighting with whales, and finally fighting with the hungry instincts, a few people survived. There was the old man at the beginning of the movie who collected money from writers to tell stories. He was only 14 years old at the time and he was still a teenager. Obviously the story told in the movie was not something he knew, because later the lifeboats separated, and the captain and chief mate also separated. In fact, no one knew everything. Unexpected things happened after drawing lots to decide who to eat. Everyone rushed to dedicate their lives. In the end, the buddy who grabbed the pistol shot himself and destroyed the election results. Although the procedure was incorrect, he still grabbed the priority to dedicate himself. Right, just like everyone rushing to blow up the bunker in Chinese movies. What kind of spirit is this, Lei Feng is so weak when he helps the old man cross the road!

The following quotes a comment about the film: The
film’s social overview of the nineteenth century, including the state of the whaling industry, and the overall flow of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are very complete. It can be said that the beginning of the film is very in place and powerful, but the subsequent There are many descriptions of various events, and maybe the audience needs to spend more time to understand, which includes the issue of respect for life, and also includes the moral challenge to the limit of human beings.

The special effects part of the giant whale is amazing, and its appearance will make the audience quickly think about the balanced relationship between man and nature, but the disadvantage is that it abuses the special sound effects when the giant whale appears. , The focus of the film was diluted by another layer, the production team wanted to create the idea of ​​plot turning, but for this kind of look and feel switching is still a bit too abrupt and messy, this should be the film’s most pity Place.

"The Depths of the Ocean" has a very magnificent scene that makes the audience's eyes intent. It also has a philosophical thinking about human nature like "The Fantasy Drifting of the Boy School". From the perspective of yam, we can even see the fragile side of human nature. The most essential content of the film is definitely not in the splendor of the picture, but in the analysis of the delicate balance in the world (Yam News Review, from Sogou Encyclopedia, end quote ).

"Contains the issue of respect for life, but also includes the moral challenge to the limits of human beings." Such euphemistic words are talking about "cannibalism". Respect for life naturally also includes respect for the life of a whale. When the film shows the plot of a child who is a survivor crawling into the body of a whale to get grease, this may be the issue of respect, as well as "Wild Hunter". Glass got into the horse's belly to keep warm, but when people are forced to survive, the so-called respect for life, including respect for the lives of others, may be just a pale empty talk. Many people may still remember the award-winning documentary "Dolphin Bay" a few years ago. Blood water stained the waters of Dolphin Bay. When people hunted whales, hunted dolphins, or hunted bears in the jungle, did they ever think about them? Feel?

In recent years, Hollywood has filmed a lot of post-destructive eras. In the end, people cannibalize because of hunger. "Doomsday", "Survivor", and "Mad Max" all describe instincts. The glorious struggle between evil and human nature. These stories all take place in the future. I don’t even know where it is. In the end, scarce human nature defeats evil. Anyone who knows a little movie knows. The ending of such a movie is just the creator’s hope. that is it.

And when human beings bring bombs, fires, destruction and killing to other people of the same kind, have you ever thought about the feelings of other people? When those who were killed were slaughtered just because of "authoritarianism", "backwardness" and "closedness", the perpetrators should probably think about it. Putting aside those lofty excuses, you may only do this out of hunger instinct. . I admire those Americans in Hollywood who dare to reflect, but in the face of realistic instincts, the so-called civilization and reflection are just a representation of civilization in the "swimming the monkey and crowning" style. (End)

Note: "The Sperm Whale's Revenge: A Record of the Whaling Shipwreck of the USS Essex", published in "Southern Weekend", the web link for this article is http://www.infzm.com/content/100321

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  • Abigail 2022-03-22 09:01:42

    Such a good story and cast were wasted by a boring screenwriter with no climax, and finally the oil scene was the only bright spot on land.

  • Frank 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    So disappointed! The whole film can't even find the so-called core, from whaling to survival, it has been taken carelessly; even the 3D effect is so dull that it is dispensable, blinding the IMAX screen.

In the Heart of the Sea quotes

  • Old Thomas Nickerson: The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.

  • Old Thomas Nickerson: [from trailer] We were headed for the edge of sanity... like we were aberrations, phantoms. Trust gave way to doubt. Hope to superstition.