Three films related to South America and ships: 1. "Aguirre, God's Wrath" In the 16th century, after the Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Inca Empire, they began to search for the legendary city of gold, and the noble Aguirre usurped the expedition's Leadership, suppressing dissidents along the way, trying to establish their own kingdom, and finally encountered the siege of the Indians, the whole army was wiped out, just like the Amazon version of "Apocalypse Now". 2. "Boat on Land" In Peru at the beginning of the 20th century, Fitzgerald, a white man, was infatuated with opera and dreamed of building his own grand theater in the rainforest. In order to make money, he bought a boat and went upstream to harvest rubber, in order to avoid the rapids , decided to transport the boat across the ridge and take another gentle river. Who knows that the indigenous people who have been "enthusiastic to help" just want to sacrifice the river with the boat... 3. "The Lonely Raft" In 1947, the Norwegian explorer Heyerdahl tried to prove , More than 1,400 years ago, the Peruvians traveled across the ocean on a raft to Polynesia, and built a raft with five friends, which lasted 101 days to complete the expedition. The first two films were Herzog's works, and the protagonists were Kinski, and they were all about the theme of "failure". Aguirre is mad, ruthless, and self-sufficient; Fitzgerald is naive, stubborn, and hopelessly romantic. Aguirre passed away unwillingly, but Fitzgerald, like the protagonist of "The Old Man and the Sea", invited the opera troupe to sing on the scarred steamboat. The history of South America, mysterious, bloody, desolate, enslaved, misunderstood, and ignored, is still messy and devastated. White foreigners who are "conquerors" have always been unable to understand this place, let alone "conquer" this land, and those gorgeous and absurd dreams are like floating clouds, with no branches to rely on. As for Heyerdahl's conjecture, modern genetic analysis shows that Polynesians originated in Southeast Asia, such a conclusion is so cold. Not all adventure stories have the happy ending of Indiana Jones. More often, like "Jodorowsky's Dunes", they become the gorgeous Tower of Babel, which makes people yearn and sigh. "Love to me is not skin-to-skin, not a vegetable and a meal, it is an immortal desire, a hero's dream in a tired life." Duras' words have been quoted countless times, in "Koi" " Today, "Lie Win" and "Oli Gi" seem a bit hypocritical, but it can still capture part of the meaning of life.
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