□ Text / Vulcan Ji
In order to protect our homeland, wife and children, peaceful life, rivers and mountains and forests from harm; we will give everything we have.
Life is passing and blood will be shed; but we will never regret it.
Because of the desire for happiness and serenity; we appear so fearless, brave, and powerful. - Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
Why is this a neglected movie? This epic movie, which cost 45 million US dollars to make, integrates ethnic, fantasy, plot, adventure, war and many other elements into one, but it failed to cause waves among Chinese fans, which is a little confusing to me. Among the friends I know who write movies, no one seems to notice this movie. Because there are not enough stars to attract attention, because the name of the director Marcus Nispel is not loud enough, because the propaganda work before and after the production party has not been done in place... or other reasons, anyway, this movie is not It's been drowned in a slew of blockbusters without anyone noticing it.
In my opinion, this movie is as moving as Mel Giblin's Apocalypse; only because Mel's reputation as the world's most successful independent filmmaker and director is much more prominent than Marcus' . Marcus, who directed "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", is famous for his sturdy style. If you have seen his "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and can accept his film style, you should Will look forward to this movie and should like it. This is a very atmospheric film, perhaps somewhat cruel and bloody, but it is much more restrained than Marcus's previous work. This movie also feels close to Zack Snyder's "300 Dead"; especially the killing and confrontation scenes remind me of "300 Dead" that was booming a while back. And the style, heritage and artistic height of this movie are not worse than those two movies.
The film tells the story of the Americas 600 years before Columbus discovered the New World. It tells the story of a little Viking boy who was abandoned on the North American continent and was raised by the local Indians and followed them to live a peaceful and stable life. The Indians are kind, simple, tolerant and indifferent to the world. Probation of this little boy who has lived in the brutal Viking world since he was a child. The movie begins with a Viking raid and slaughter, in order to completely and completely occupy this unexplored rich land, they have never stopped slaughtering since the discovery of this continent; in their eyes , after they had to kill all the original inhabitants here, they began to write a clear and pure history for this continent. Bloody storms arose on the rich, peaceful and isolated American continent; the Vikings They started their unscrupulous burning, killing and looting, and completely ended all the peace and happiness on this continent. Fifteen years later; they came to the village where the little Viking boy was, burned down all the houses and slaughtered the whole village of men, women and children.
It was an Iron Age vs. Stone Age war; it was a war of aggression and defense against aggression. The rich prey and the single social structure of the rich American continent have supported generations of Indians. The primitive small-scale wars kept their weapons and hunting tools still in the most primitive stone tool age. They only need to use these most Ancient stone and wood tools are enough to live a self-sufficient and peaceful life in this rich land. The Vikings brought the sharp and sharp swords they brought from Europe to pierce the peace of the entire American continent since ancient times, and the thick armor used to protect themselves blocked all the attacks of those ancient weapons. The advanced and superior weapons and armor make their killing as easy and effortless as sheep into wolves. This is a war of aggression launched in the Iron Age and a homeland defense war in the Stone Age, endless desire, boundless pain and struggle full of blood and tears; it can be said that this is a war without suspense. The Vikings slaughtered countless Indians and burned down countless primitive villages, no matter whether men, women, children, large or small villages were spared.
This film more or less continues the brutal and realistic directing style of Marcus in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". The splattered blood and piles of bones make this film full of blood and tears appear cruel and realistic. Beautiful virgin jungles and high snow-capped mountains, extremely terrifying avalanches and collapses when walking across a lake on thin ice, the perfect computer effects make this movie look majestic. The beautiful scenery and brutal killing form a strong contrast, which endows the film with an extreme visual contrast in the exquisite lens composition and decadent violence. The brutal and inhuman slaughter of the Vikings in the war of invasion; the tenacity, bravery and infinite wisdom of the Indians and the grown-up Viking boys in the war with the guards make the film's twists and turns tight plots appear tense and tempting. people. Arguably, this shouldn't be a movie that's been ignored and forgotten.
A Viking boy who was abandoned by the Vikings in the American continent and raised by the kind and tolerant Indians, he faced one of the Vikings who had the same roots as himself, and the other was thrown away. Those tolerant Indians who have been raised by racial prejudice will face an extremely confused dilemma: to help his own people go to the next Indian village and completely kill those primitive people. The savage and savage peoples, or to rescue and avenge the Indians who raised them; that would be a heavy question. The plot setting of this section is adapted from the 1987 Norwegian classic film "Lost in the White Night", and it is perhaps the most important plot adapted from this film. The interweaving and struggle between the inferiority of human nature and the conscience of human nature, contradictions and entanglements, and the choice of human nature are also a very important part of this film.
He chose conscience in an understatement; but making such a choice was not easy. Perhaps personal sentiments are trivial before the national and racial festivals. When he swung the iron tools cast by the Vikings at the violent tribes, and finally designed to kill all the invading Vikings and protect all the remaining Indians, his figure was enough to be marked with greatness. At this time, I suddenly remembered the rescued Jews in the irrelevant "Schindler's List".
Such a choice gives the film a strong didactic flavor. When a person is at the intersection and crossroads of life, we may hesitate to move forward, but we must ultimately decide the way we go forward; choose a right road or choose a wrong path, choose The thorns or the flat, in fact, is just the difference between our own thoughts. What the movie wants to tell us is that by choosing good, we have the power to decide our life and the way forward.
The Stone Age triumphed over the Iron Age. From the logic of weapon textual research, this is almost impossible, because from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, there are two cold weapon ages in the middle; basically, this is a modern confrontation ancient warfare. However, the story in the movie violated the law of the disparity in power that led to the outcome of the war and contributed to the final victory of this homeland defense war. Perhaps, not all war outcomes are determined purely by the level of force. I remember my history teacher in high school once told me that the final outcome of any war in Chinese and foreign history is determined by the nature of the war; the disparity in force and the quality of equipment can only be determined Local battlefield defeats and temporary defeats, but from a macro perspective, the final victory will ultimately belong to the right side. The most simple old Chinese saying, "Whoever wins the hearts and minds of the people, wins the world" has long been summed up in one sentence. And the story in this film is undoubtedly in line with this objective historical law; the defense of aggression and anti-aggression, and the victory of justice that has been retreating steadily is not unexpected at all.
Human beings have this ability, at least we can believe in ourselves; when we make a right choice, when we put enough effort and sweat for this right choice, we can get what we want most result. The disparity in strength makes us choose to outsmart, and it is precisely because of this logical thinking ability that we humans are fundamentally different from other animals. We can overcome the strong with the weak, so in the end, the good will always prevail over the evil.
I like this movie because the evil is finally defeated, all the Vikings are lost under the cliff, justice is preached, and the goodness of human nature finally overcomes the evil in human nature. Everything ends in necessity. Of course I know that the world is not as beautiful as we imagined, and I also know that many things cannot develop and end as we imagined; however, we may not like to be constantly reminded of the terribleness of the world , we may be more willing to believe those fantasies in our hearts that should be attributed to the good.
2007-09-20; Dingsi day of the first month of the Dinghai year.
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■Title: "Pathfinder"
■Translation: "Pathfinder" | "Exploration" | "The Conqueror"
■Director: Marcus Nispel
■Screenwriter: Laeta Kalogridis | Nils Gaup
■Starring: Mu Moon Bloodgood | Clancy Brown | Karl Urban
■ Country: United States
■ Language: English
■ Genre: Action | Fantasy | Drama | Adventure | War
■Duration: 103 minutes
■Release: 20th Century Fox Films
■Released: January 11, 2007 (Malaysia)
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