They cheered: "The whale spurted blood! It spurted blood!"

Wayne 2021-11-28 08:01:20

Before oil, the fuel for human society came from the ocean-whale oil. Sperm whale Fangzheng's head holds very high-quality whale brain oil. Its smokeless flame quickly made it a consumption habit, and in 1846, it had reached the culmination of the whale oil crisis. The excavation of kerosene (or the birth of the oil industry) temporarily saved the last sperm whales and other cetaceans.

The period from 1820 to 1860 was the golden age of the whaling industry in the United States. As many as 250,000 sperm whales were killed. Extending time to the entire 20th century, the total number of whales killed was 2.9 million. There are only three remaining sperm whales (sorry I did not find the exact remaining number).

I have always disliked the main theme, but after watching this film, I sincerely feel that a team lacks tacit understanding, distrusts each other, and has a stubborn, self-sufficient airborne leader. What a terrible disaster; at the same time, an uncoordinated inheritance of virtue, yes What a devastation is a person who is powerless but has a sense of shame.

Fortunately, after ninety days of co-existence and death, the captain finally did not transfer all the responsibility to the first mate like the first conflict, and stood with him, choosing to announce the cruelest facts in the process of death and survival.

Everyone is equal before life and death. There is no overpowering of the weak and no selfish desires. To a certain extent, it is the righteousness of the "upper" class with guns that has maintained the final order. It is not accidental that there are still alive after ninety days of drifting.

Based on the real shipwreck-

Shadow: "The Depths of the Ocean"

Book: "White Whale"

(Want to have a whale tail necklace?)

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  • Jovani 2022-03-29 09:01:02

    So boring... 15 years of post-production special effects should be so rough? Sailing and whaling, survival in the wilderness, and drifting, too many elements of cannibalism

  • Fay 2022-04-22 07:01:18

    Disappointed, the relationship between the characters is insufficient, the theme is not clear enough, and a lot of trivial shots in the first half are rendering the atmosphere. The mode is similar to the speed of romance, and the plot is well shot, but it is not suitable for this theme.

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.