: The director’s skillful techniques reproduced various savage scenes, making the Viking Pirates a Texas chainsaw massacre club.
From the beginning to the end, the film is dominated by a dark gray-blue tone, which makes the scene where the abandoned ship and dead bodies are found in the opening scene very enjoyable. The darkness afterwards was just a mystery that brought inconvenience to watching the movie.
The film is adapted from a Norwegian film "Ofelas", most of which is translated into "The Lost in the White Night", and there is also a direct translation "The North Sea Huns". It is interesting to compare the Vikings of the Nordics with the Huns in the interior. Because in the traditional sense, the Viking pirates and the desert Huns seem to be typical representatives of the barbarians. The main plot of the film is that after the Vikings burned and killed North American Indian tribes, they left behind a young boy who was adopted by the Indians and grew up to resist the Viking invasion again.
The contradiction between kinship and blood relationship is reflected as confusion about one's own cognition. The so-called "Pathfinder" has multiple meanings in the film. It is not only a way for Ghost played by Karl Urban to find self-attribution, but also a way for "the People of the Dawn" where StarFire, the daughter of the chief, played by Moon Bloodgood, to elect the chief. , Is the way for "the People of the Dawn" to grow into a warrior. But the subject's meaning is the same: to find a way out in a lost way. The warrior needs to make a difference by practicing his own way; the chief needs to lead the people out of the hardships of life; our protagonist needs to find his place between the two races, get out of the haze in his heart, and get rid of the full of hatred. The theme of survival and revenge in the original film is intertwined with Indian philosophy and elements similar to Zen enlightenment and psychic, making the film's connotation a bit subtle.
As the son of Viking, the recognition of Ghost by the Indian tribe is the first contradiction, and his identity is the main hidden clue of the film. From the anger of "bearing to see my peers become new ghosts", to the blue wave-like vengeance jungle war, to the torture of being a prisoner, to the self-sacrifice of finally becoming the young king's second elementary school and luring the enemy into the encirclement. Failure to do anything about the Vikings is actually the process of Ghost's search for his own destination. From the old chieftain Pathfinder, this confusion of Ghost seemed to be a kind of vengeance from inner fear, and he didn't seem to want Ghost to become a hateful killer. Whether this hatred stems from the tragic experience of childhood abuse, or the fact that the village neighbors were slaughtered. Probably the self awakened by hatred will only become another Viking killer, rather than a warrior wielding a knife for "self-preservation"-all of the above are my own conjectures. If this is the case, then the criterion of "killing" behavior is defined as "purpose." If you kill because of hatred, you are cold-blooded; if you wield a knife to prevent others from being "cold-blooded," you are a brave soldier? This kind of logic is unacceptable to the author: if it is not "offensive", then everything is "offensive", even though it is a little bit of humanitarianism that stands up and speaks. In the film, Ghost gave the chief's logo to StarFire. He did not enter the Indian tribe and became an Indian warrior, nor did he leave by boat to become a Viking pirate. Instead, he chose to be a "beach lifeguard" to maintain peace on both sides of the strait. In the words of the mother of StarFire: "to keep the wolves of hate
away from our shores." Ghost is a bit of the coast guard, fighting crimes at sea and becoming a guardian angel. I don’t know whether this angel who used violence to control violence will enter heaven at the time of the doomsday judgment?
Putting aside the puzzling theme, the effect of the film alone is satisfactory. The tactics used by lone heroes to go deep into the wolf den are more flexible in this frozen world of the North over a thousand years ago. We can see common and thrilling snow chases, full of speed and passion; we can see dangerous jungle field battles, where minds and limbs are equal; and there are even urban street fights, but they just moved into a dark cave. The Vikings were masked with beasts of beasts, and suddenly appeared in the dim environment. The long swords and great axes slashed left and right. Accompanied by the screams and screams of the Indians, they did have a certain sense of horror. Coupled with the performance of some bloody scenes, I feel more wild: smashing the skull, cutting the throat, cutting off the arms, piercing the torso, the kind of impact fighting in the fast cutting and realistic sound effects, and the life is so vivid. Dripping, shouting enjoyment. The only thing I felt was the lack of surprises in the handling of some big scenes. The scenes of looting and killing the village are basically the embodiment of the intertwined details, and there is no sprinkling of macroscopic heroism; the passage of the large forces marching on the ice layer and falling into the ice layer does not have a magnificent overall description. The painting frame is basically occupied by the performance of individual details, separately describing the struggle of the individual in the glacier, and indeed the pain of the collective scream. Perhaps the director deliberately performed this way because he felt that the performance of the big scene was a bit plain and unconventional. Therefore, the film does not have the magnificent epic sense, only the depressing urgency. The plot is relatively compact, but it is not immune to adding romantic lingering in the pursuit and escape. The hero and heroine's same night in the cave appears a bit abruptly. The heroine StarFire just looked into Ghost's eyes, said a tribal "proverb", and was overthrown. At this time, the two people have not shared the joys and sorrows, and there is no deeper communication and understanding — the deep communication is completed in naked embrace — this kind of arrangement makes people have to suspect that hormones are at work, a bit Raw rice and cooked rice, it feels like getting married first and then falling in love. The general police and gangster movies are the leisure of escape after passing by with the god of death, and only then began to be tender for a while. In this film, the two people basically only have the chance to meet and laugh. They turned to bed without saying a few words. Perhaps they knew each other from childhood and talked secretly. Anyway, there is no explanation in the film. The love at first sight between the two progressed so fast that they were not confined to the world, which was admirable.
Like the other heroes, Ghost is unrelenting, and StarFire is pregnant with his child. At this point, it is estimated that all the American men's teams will be discouraged from becoming such heroes. Think twice:
How much risk is this to take, it will kill!
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