In the introduction of the note, it said that "the tenacious struggle between human beings and nature", "the epic of a hero" and so on. But when I watched this documentary, I didn't think about this feeling at all. What I thought was how to get the arctic foxes and polar bears out of their poisonous hands. Seals are not mentioned because seals are relatively large, and the number of polar bears is really in jeopardy.
This film can be regarded as the creation of an era, a recording method with a single character as the protagonist and a face in the form of a point. This documentary takes an Eskimo family as a unit, and generally expresses the Eskimo in the eyes of the author (no introduction is necessary because there are some distortions). The author's value orientation can be seen from the soundtrack. When the little snow fox was caught, the music was lively, but when I think of the snow fox skins, my heart is sour. Thinking of "Dolphin Cove" again, I'm really drunk with this soundtrack. As a documentary alone, the value of this film is unquestionable, but the author's standard European and American predatory value orientation is difficult to agree with.
Speaking of this documentary, although some of it was performed, it still clearly reproduces the unique, arduous and tenacious state of existence of the Eskimos. As a documentary mission, it has been successfully completed. Moreover, the whole film is very organized and enjoyable to watch. As a film from more than 100 years ago, it is very immersive to watch for two hours. It cannot be said that it was unsuccessful. The tenacity and extreme hardship shown by the Eskimos, especially in the process of hunting seals with harpoons, gives people a strong sense of substitution. I looked weak, as if I was fighting that seal, and when the figure of my companion appeared in the distance, he breathed a sigh of relief. As an early documentary, this one seems to set the format for future documentaries and even today.
When I was a child, I might be very excited about the kind of single fighting tigers and conquering nature. But now things have gradually changed, and it is even more worrying about how humans and nature can truly coexist peacefully and friendly. If it was more than 100 years ago, people didn't seem to have such a big feeling, but look at it now. On the way of people "conquering" nature, so many creatures have been extinct. In fact, the Eskimos at that time had already used shotguns to hunt seals, and they were earlier in the documentary. Human beings are progressing too fast, and there are ambitions that grow with them. When the Eskimos were equipped with shotguns, the nature completely changed, and a whole horde of predators appeared in the ecosphere. The spire of the pyramid turned into a bomb, blasting the pyramid out of a serious mine.
Europeans and Americans stepped on the corpses of races of other colors and shapes, climbed to the current height step by step, and then began to pretend to be gentlemen, but as long as they were given a chance, they would not be stingy to show their beastly side (see Burning the Old Summer Palace). People are like this... The most annoying thing is that you have no power to change anything. Force is in their hands. No matter how people develop, force is the fundamental to change everything. Laws must be formulated with the supreme force. Be poor and be alone.
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