"Nanuk of the North", directed by Flaherty, is a film without any dubbing, with the soundtrack and the picture to coordinate the sound. Black and white silent film with subtitles. It is the first documentary in the world, and it has a landmark guiding significance for mankind. The film takes the Eskimo's best hunter "Nanuk" as the protagonist and shows them catching fish, hunting, and building igloos. Created the starting point of anthropological social image recording. In the documentary, in the vast ice sheet, the North American Eskimo Nanuk and his family had to travel from one place to another by canoe or dog sled in order to survive. Their houses are made of solid ice, and walruses and seals are their main food. The harsh environment and primitive productivity make the survival of the Nanook family very difficult, and they often go out to hunt in extremely low temperature conditions. We also felt the fortitude, tenacity and uncompromising performance of the Eskimos in the face of the harsh living environment. They are in an ancient civilization and they like to test with their lips and their teeth. For example, they use their mouths to kill the fish they catch, and they also use their teeth to bite the vinyl records they have never seen before. In the morning, the wife gnaws at the soft, frozen shoes for her husband. The film uses a parallel montage shooting method, and the shooting effect is smooth and realistic. It is reflected in the construction of igloos by the Eskimos, while adults build igloos and children "ski" on the other. With each slide, the adult's room rises more than half. Making the narrative style clearer will make the entire documentary more intriguing. But the documentary has also been controversial, such as its authenticity. Our definition of documentaries is to use real life as the creative material, take real people as the object of expression, and perform artistic processing on them. The core is truth. The documentary is Flaherty's second time in the Arctic to shoot. The first film back was turned to ashes because of a cigarette butt. Not only does getting along with them day and night gain trust, but it also makes the Nanook family highly natural in front of the camera. And improve the previous deficiencies. But I think the film has a strong personal and subjective color from the director. But still has a high degree of authenticity. Some people think that there are renditions and subjective interventions in the film, which are inconsistent with reality. For example: At that time the Eskimos no longer hunted with harpoons but with rifles. The results of the Nanook family's wake-up "show". But I think it can reflect the scene that society and the author himself wants to express. This film shows people a whole new world and makes people rethink the world. In my opinion, the existence of a thing has its meaning, and we cannot criticize it blindly. This documentary is an existence that cannot be ignored in the history of film, creating a precedent for the use of images to record human society. It has created brilliant achievements for the film world. Let's not speculate on the world at will. The world is made of different things. There are reasons and laws for their existence. We have to learn to respect and accept. We need to understand the world better, keep good intentions, and think rationally.
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