Aftermath of Nanook in the North

Florida 2022-10-11 20:54:11

I didn't read it carefully during class, I was busy eating, and I searched iQIYI again at noon the next day, made up for this work, and wrote my own review. No exaggeration, just talk about how you feel after reading it. As soon as the film enters the eye, the sense of history and heaviness comes to the face. The old-fashioned film camera used should be shot in black and white. Compared with the documentary with color, it is undeniable that this documentary has a stronger tension and is simple. Behind the black and white, the audience may think of more complexity. I will take the initiative to add more colors to the picture. The white snow, their purple-red skin color and the bloody picture when they eat raw seals, maybe black and white and old-fashioned background can bring Give us more truth. The background music of the whole film is a cheerful and escaped background music, monotonous but not boring, which just contrasts with the harsh environment in the film. The shots are not complicated. The combination of long shots and several sports shots expresses the emotions of the characters just right, but it is not easy for this ancient documentary. The way of expressing montage expresses the emotions of the creator, stimulates the audience's association, and inspires the audience's thinking. While watching the whole film, I also simply wrote and drew for several scenes in the film, which is probably the primitive barter with fur traders, walrus ivory fishing, walrus hunting, and snow house building. My impression is primitive, animalistic. Living in such an extremely cold environment, their living environment can be said to be extremely harsh, lack of resources, lack of necessary living materials, and will starve at every turn. The documentary shows the success of the male owner fishing and hunting walruses, but more often he should return empty-handed. "They traded animal skins with fur traders in exchange for knives and brightly colored candies." Accepting the fur traders' banquet, it was estimated that the little girl who had not felt full for a long time had eaten, and the curiosity expressed around the old-fashioned gramophone, These pictures are all sideways to bring out the harsh living environment. But under the bad conditions, what I saw was not the Eskimos losing confidence in life and giving up resistance, but being optimistic and positive, fighting against the struggle of fate, and using wisdom and unity to solve various difficult problems.

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Extended Reading

Nanook of the North quotes

  • Title Card: Landing at the white man's "big igloo" - - the trading post.

  • Title Card: In deference to Nanook, the great hunter, the trader entertains and attempts to explain the principle of the gramophone - - how the white man "cans" his voice.