After watching "Nanuk of the North", I couldn't calm down for a long time. The first thing I thought about was the last scene of the film--Nanuk's family encountered a blizzard and took refuge in an abandoned "Igloo". A snow sculpture in a blizzard. How long did this climate last, and did the Nanook family go home safely? I almost forced myself to find the final destination of the Nanook family. After Baidu, I found that the Nanook family starved to death after filming this documentary. Such an ending is really unacceptable. This family, a little innocent child, Nanuk who has gone through untold hardships to survive and never fears suffering, and his wife, her sled dogs, the harsh natural environment is what they have been conquering , but in the end it fell into the hands of nature. However, the starvation of the Nanook family was to cooperate with the director and finally did not save enough food for the winter. From my heart, this is really tantamount to intentional murder. Can't they leave some after filming? Material rewards to make life better for the Nanook family? From the perspective of the whole film, whether it is staged or not, it reflects the tenacious and confident survival process of the Eskimos in the harsh natural environment. From the perspective of human evolution, the early 20th century should be a period of entering the industrial age, but for the Eskimos, it is still a primitive state of eating raw meat. Human development is not fair. The Eskimos struggled to survive in the blizzard, but the so-called civilized world was in the throes of war. The suffering of the Eskimo life is the result of self-effort, peace and quiet. Although the civilized world is good, they live each other in a kind of bandit way. I'm not trying to compare and highlight how well the Eskimos were in their original state, I just wanted to show that human beings are really going backwards in evolution. The civilized society of the industrial society competes with each other to plunder and plunder. The Eskimos are running on the line of life and death every day, but they can still cooperate with each other. Isn't this a spiritual regression? Not to say that all people in civilized society are like this, but it is really worth thinking about. Eskimo children occasionally go naked in the blizzard, and adults wear clothes made of animal fur. What I thought of was that this child really had developed a reinforced iron frame from the natural environment. Older children live carefree lives, follow their fathers, work hard, but still smile brightly. Under this environment, they live in a great nation and a great ethnic group. Taking refuge in "Igloo", is Nanook falling asleep because of the fatigue of running around for a living, or is he used to facing the setbacks of life so he falls asleep peacefully? I think it's both, Nanook is really tiring by himself, but when we play games with the kids, we will Seeing his happy smile, the ice floes blocked the way to survive, but Nanook just found food for survival. The setbacks of life are the normal state of life for him. Watch the curious Eskimo look when he hears the gramophone of modern civilization, and the scene where he bites the record with his teeth. I would think that the only way of life to pursue survival, their bite, is a habit of life. This scene is a very naive action in our opinion, but after thinking about it, since they have come into contact with modern civilization and trade with the white people of modern civilization, why did they not step into a civilized society? What is preventing them from entering or are they unwilling to do so? From the Eskimos, we can imagine the struggles of our own ancestors, from them. We can know the twists and turns of human civilization and cherish the progress of civilization, which is what we should do. Every race has its own path of development, and really, the Nanook is a spirit that a civilized society should learn from. Of course, it's not about killing animals, but about hard work and strength in survival.
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