"Sometimes life is like an axe, it starts to break your heart, and then splits the wood to make you fire." "Every Viking will find his own axe, chop off the enemy's head, and storm, doom, Fight with God."-Two Viking maxims now compiled after reading. On the whole, it is just an old-fashioned warm story about how people can find themselves and revive their lives. The difference is that the protagonist of this story is the offspring of the pirates.
The title looks dull and boring at first. It's actually a pun or metaphor, it should be the title (I don't know what the movie term is called). The protagonist who frustrated his life moved to Newfoundland and became a reporter for a local tabloid. He was responsible for writing shipping news. At first he felt boring. There are always ships coming and going. Then the president told him that you need to discover every ship. The master and the story behind her. This should usually be how movies and novels are generated. Of course, shipping news actually also explained the background of the story.
The more beautiful place lies in the natural fusion of history, legends and ordinary family life. Every corner of the land reminds visitors that they are descendants of Vikings, burned, killed and looted, and committed no evil, and they are also tough seafarers. The protagonist is a weak middle-aged man who has been bullied until he returns to his ancestral house and discovers the secret of his surname and the Viking blood flowing in his body. Since then, he has strength and expelled the doom that has been shrouded in him.
The novel is certainly good, but as a movie, it lacks a lot. Many of the short stories describing the character of the Vikings are very exciting, but the movie did not unfold, and it is still dictated by the characters. For example, the contradiction between the president of the newspaper and his son. Their family has been trapped by a curse, and generations of people have died at sea. Therefore, the father never agreed to his son to board the boat. As a result, the son still sneaked away and disappeared, and the father sailed alone. I found it and asked my son to stop this madness after waking up, but my son's response was: Can you transfer your fishing license to me?
The scenery is really beautiful. I've been accustomed to tropical scenery and hot cover girls, the capes of Newfoundland, cold and far away, but the sea is entirely ice and vodka, enough to make you impulsive.
As far as the movie is concerned, the main body has a redemption plot with missing details, and the character handling is a bit rough, lacks the motivation and explanation for change, and is not persuasive. The original work should be much richer, I want to find it.
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