————Ernest Hemingway
Maybe many people don’t know Wolfgang Peterson’s perfect storm, but they will know Hemingway’s old man and the sea. The perfect storm is a story similar to the old man and the sea, one about the dignity of men. A story of courage, perseverance, a must-see movie for men.
Many people list The Godfather as the TOP one of the must-see movies for men. That's because of the Godfather’s subject matter, film history status, and romantic portrayal of the gang, but I think a movie that really touches me in the story is this perfect storm. This is an old movie ten years ago. I have watched it many times in ten years. From the first movie theater to the later TV station, to the current online viewing, every time I watch it, my heart seems to be filled with a perfect storm. Can't calm down for a long time.
Captain Billy is an experienced fisherman, but his fishing boat has not been harvested for a long time. He has fallen into the low tide of his life. The owner also made a bitter satire on him. After returning home almost empty-handed after going out to sea, Billy decided Immediately he went out to sea again. He decided to take an adventure at Cape Frankie, where there are many fish but also the climate change is abnormal, because there is the "big fish" he wants, Captain Billy is like the old man and the old fisherman Sandia in the sea. He chose to venture out at sea again not for how much money he could earn, but for dignity. He wanted to prove that he was still the best captain. He wanted to give a heavy blow to those who ridiculed him. What he really wanted to gain was not in groups. Big fish, but the respect of his colleagues, this is the most impressive one of all the roles that George Clooney has played. A tenacious and unyielding tough guy, a fisherman facing the violent storm and stormy waves, one who can never be defeated. Man.
Billy’s crew members are also fighting for their own lives. Bobby wants to earn some money to start a new life with his fiancee, Murphy wants to support his wife and children, and Sully wants to solve his own livelihood. Single Hanbucks They want to get married after earning money. They are all small people in this world. They are not saviors or heroes, but they are the pillars around their relatives. They have not done earth-shattering great deeds, and they have no important task of saving the world. They only want to fight for the people they love and those who love themselves, and fight for their own lives. They just want to go through this perfect storm in front of them and use their hard-earned money to realize the dreams of ordinary people. Moved, the little man interprets a magnificent chapter of human nature in a big storm. The little man tells me what dignity and courage are.
Life is sometimes about the changing weather in the movie, sometimes we have to face the haze, then do we insist on our choice like Captain Billy, sometimes we have to face big winds and waves, then do we control like Captain Billy? The rudder of a good life has long winds and waves.
This is a perfect storm, and also a perfect movie. In the raging storm of the perfect storm, the precarious little fishing boat was eventually overturned. After experiencing waves of huge waves, Billy and him The crew did not break through the siege, but slept in the deep sea. Billy once said in the movie: "The sea is his home." Now he will never leave his own home. Faced with death, Billy is calm. After all, he has worked hard, he has not failed, he has fulfilled his promise of returning home, he has retrieved the big fish in his life, before the violent wind and waves, he has not been afraid, he has been fighting like a warrior.
Real warriors dare to face the dripping blood and face the bleak life. Billy and his crew are true warriors. They have never bowed their heads like difficulties, they have never conceded, they have fought until the last moment of their lives. Hugo once said: "There are three sources of human suffering. One comes from society, one comes from religion, and the last comes from nature. Faced with natural disasters, the idea that man can conquer the sky is not reflected in this movie. Nature is just a drop in the ocean, but the great brilliance of human nature is the true theme of this movie. Although the ending of the movie is that the crew is buried in the sea, as Hemingway said, a person can be destroyed, but he will always be destroyed. Can't be defeated.
Perfect Storm is the most perfect movie of director Wolfgang Peterson. Compared with the perfect storm after Poseidon, the story content is much worse. Even the performance of the giant waves is not as much as in this movie. In addition to telling the story of Billy’s fishing boat, Perfect Storm also intersperses with the story of the American Coast Rescue team saving people. That is to say, the plot of the stormy adventure is added to this movie, but the two plots are together. It is not abrupt. This is a movie that embodies human nature. In the face of disasters, different people have different attitudes, Billy and the crew’s brave face, declared war on difficulties, and the loyalty of the coastal rescue team members, in order to save people. Regardless of your own safety, some people may say that this is a movie with the main theme, but in Hollywood commercials, the perfect storm really brings people a lot of thinking and moving. It is also a shipwreck. There is no poignant beauty in the Titanic in the perfect storm. A touching love story, this is just a story of a few down-and-out men fighting for their dignity, but he can give people a kind of inspiring strength. This is also a sign of the maturity of Hollywood commercial films. Our domestic films should learn from and learn when shooting disaster films, instead of turning into a film based on a national disaster. Put a few tear gas canisters to attract audiences under the banner of 3D IMAX. , The real classic movie is to let people be moved every time they watch it.
I also got to know George Clooney and Marc Wahlberg through this movie. The supporting actor played by Marc also left a deep impression on me, especially the last shot, when he rushed out of the cabin. , Seeing a ray of sunrise in the squally wind and waves, psychologically calling for miss and love for the lover, at that moment, that ray of sunrise is enough to warm the coldness of the whole movie.
The perfect storm is a story about the sea, a story about a man, a story about a man and the sea, and finally ends the film review with Captain Billy’s poetic words: "The fog just cleared, let go With knots and back ropes, we headed for the Southern Strait, passing Rocky Gap Island, Ten Pound Island, and passing the Nile Pond where I was skating when I was a kid. I sounded the whistle and waved to the children of the lighthouse guard. Seabirds flew over, black-backed birds, and seagulls. , Dwarf Duck... the sun came out, sailing northward at a speed of 12 knots, braving the wind and the waves..."
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