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Alexis 2022-04-19 09:01:49


In fact, we have heard and watched too many stories and movies about drifting at sea and fighting against the sea. Human beings have been fighting against nature since ancient times. Many things that we take for granted today were made in those days. It takes many generations to even pay with their lives to find out.

From the perspective of special effects, this "disaster film" simply cannot be compared with other disaster films that are also positioned as disaster films. From another angle, put ourselves into the era of sailing, how much we can pay for a promise, and how much firm belief will wait for a person.

There is a sentence in Star Wars: The force awakens that makes me feel very important: I know all about waiting...
waiting, what does it mean to people in an era when communication is so underdeveloped? I tried desperately to think.

When a sailor goes out to sea and says goodbye to his wife, saying I promise you I will come back, I swear. He doesn't even know in his heart whether he can come back this time.
With tears in her eyes, the wife took off the necklace and put it on the beloved person in front of her. How she didn't want him to leave. What kind of torment did you have to go through to get the courage to look at the ships entering the port every time.

In ancient times, letters were used to communicate with each other, "seeing words like meeting". At that time, I really had thousands of thoughts in my heart, and I could only look at the bright moon and express my love for the landscape. Even if there are thousands of emotions in my heart, who should I tell you?

The ancients must be romantic in their hearts, and modern people express their emotions cheaply with convenient tools. It is easy to say without precipitation of emotions. love or hate.




I also know to wait. But not all.




Self-deprecating, what I feel most deeply about this movie may not be what the movie is trying to express.
There are many scenes of drifting at sea, accompanied by sunset or rising sun, or storm, or isolated island. Yes, how small human beings are compared to nature. No wonder the ancients sighed that the mayfly was a drop in the vast ocean. And it is the restlessness within us that drives us to keep on taking risks.


If it were me, I might really just want to spend time with my loved one in peace, even if it's boring together. Therefore, the process of history must always have a group of "heroes" to advance it.

I can't stand the wait. It should be.
Who knows.

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In the Heart of the Sea quotes

  • Owen Chase: Benjamin, what are you doing?

    Benjamin Lawrence: He's dead. Putting him overboard, sir.

    Owen Chase: Look at me. Look at me, Benjamin. No right-minded sailor discards what might yet save him.

  • Old Thomas Nickerson: We were weeks in the doldrums. That part of the Pacific is more desert than ocean. The sun beating down.