The film is adapted from the novel of the same name, but it is a real story. To quote the brief introduction of Baidu Encyclopedia: In the cold winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was under an incredible attack while sailing in the South Pacific. A huge whale with the will to revenge vigorously attacked the fishing boat. This real-life tragedy at sea inspired novelist Herman Melville (Ben Westshaw) to create "Moby Dick", but his story only revealed part of the tragedy. When the captain (played by Benjamin Walker) is looking for his way home in the sea, the first lieutenant (played by Chris Hemsworth) is still concerned about capturing the giant whale. The survivors of the whaling ship were forced into desperation. All the surviving seamen on the ship were crowded on three rescue boats and drifted on the sea for 90 days. Faced with storms, hunger, fear, and despair, the crew eventually evolved into killing each other and cannibalism.
I was attracted as soon as I saw the poster. The huge tail was either a sea monster or a whale. Then I looked at the stills. The special effects were done well and the scene effect was great. Under the aerial shots, the biying ocean surface, a lone boat, and a lone boat below. It is faintly in the shape of a sea monster (or giant whale), which makes people excited. The title "Depth of the Ocean", a 2015 American science fiction thriller. Although it was not as good as I expected after watching it, the poster of this movie is still top-notch, whether it is a tail cocked, a giant whale under a lone boat, or the protagonist holding a long fork straight to the huge whale eye. The visual impact and the beauty of the picture, purely grasping one lens, skimming the others, leaving the audience infinite reverie. Taiwan’s use of head posters is inferior. The translation of "The Legend of the Moby Dick: Heart of the Raging Sea" is not as triumphant as "The Depths of the Ocean".
I watched the movie alone in the darkness of the night, and I felt faint aftertaste. Even the climax part I was expecting, the giant whale crashing into the sinking fishing boat, was a flash in the pan. I didn’t even see the tail. I just scratched my head when I first appeared. There is almost no picture of the huge difference in the body shape of the human whale under the aerial camera, which is really not addictive. Maybe it’s not affordable, but it’s too foolish...A ship of people struggling in a panic in the blue water that swept in shows the powerful destructive power and rage of the giant whale, far inferior to it. There was no shock from facing the whale's impact.
What is remarkable is that the director and screenwriter have put great effort into presenting a complete whaling process, presenting this killing far away from our lives bloody and bloody before us. There is a foreshadowing. In that era when oil was undiscovered, whale oil replaced oil as all fuel. Therefore, the footprints of whales were hard to find. The Essex whaler in the film also drifted at sea for several times A small group of whales was discovered only a week ago, and there are baby whales next to the mother whale. This has already put a layer of compassion on the subsequent hunting. Watching the first mate shoot the long fork into the deadly part of the female whale lightly and flexibly (I guess it is the water jet stomata), the camera jumps into the water and starts to film the female whale struggling to swim deep into the ocean, attached to the long fork. The ropes were reduced in circles, and the strength of this female whale was exhausted bit by bit (suffocated to death), and the blue water was stained with blood. When the ropes were almost exhausted and everyone held their breath, the female whale was finally exhausted. With the last trace of strength, the rope stopped abruptly. A few seconds later, the female whale floated to the surface of the sea, and the water was stained with blood. At this time, the cheers of everyone seemed particularly harsh, and Dahe and the child (Tom Holland) stared at the dead whale with dignity, sighing for her tenacious vitality or a trace of regret in her heart? Or vaguely foresee the next disaster? This paragraph focused on the close-up of the ropes that were reduced in circles and the mother whale struggling to swim to the bottom of the sea. In the silence, the sound of ropes babbled, hitting people's hearts one by one, highlighting the struggle of animal life and the cruelty of human beings. , Enough to inspire compassion and hatred in the audience.
Immediately afterwards, refining whale blubber on a fishing boat was enough to shock the audience. The huge body of the whale was only staring at a blind eye at this time. A hole was opened in the body of the dead whale. People pumped the whale oil from the body of the whale like well water, and the white-flowered whale blubber was cut into pieces. After a few paragraphs, there was blood everywhere on the deck and on the ship's side, and the blood in the sky could be smelled across the screen. The first officer finally let the child get into the mother whale to get oil, and the blood Linlin’s internal organs and fleshy walls encircle the human child. At this moment, human sins have reached their fingertips...and it’s no wonder that the giant whale sinks in the future. Humans take the blame. If you have watched the whaling documentary "Dolphin Bay" aimed at Japan's cruelty, this feeling will be even stronger.
After the shipwreck, the hunting of giant whales is another highlight. This clever whale has been chasing secretly to the edge of the desert island. I don’t know if I don’t want these sinful humans to be saved on the island, or I have already understood that the island is inaccessible and barren, and wants to drive them to the end of the road. The lifeboat of the crowd sank. He even lingered nearby, and showed up again after more than ten days when everyone repaired the boat and set off again. Its original intention was not to leave a way for the group of people to survive, but after seeing the long fork that the chief mate had not shot, I changed my mind, maybe it was because my heart had lingering palpitations, or maybe I was spiritually versed, and understood that this group of people finally changed their minds. Staring at its eyes sharply, the stern sternness in those eyes made him fearful or worried, and he understood that bowing his head to nature also saved the rest of his life.
As for drifting on the sea, suffering from hunger, fear, and despair, and eventually evolved into mutual killing and cannibalism, the slogan of the propaganda is too much. Although this paragraph is not focused, the only bright spot is the existence of civilization. , The goodness of human nature still exists. The ending did not evolve to kill the same kind, but instead made self-sacrifice for others. The fair act of holding lots indicates that human civilization has not yet been wiped out. Therefore, it was only then that the first mate raised a long fork without shooting. People know how to respect nature, and they also know how to hold a group for warmth.
It is not unreasonable to say that this film reflects the style of British characters in the 19th century, especially the elderly children told the writer Melville about this period of time to burn whale oil, and the authority and huge system of the whaling industry, but more importantly, It is the ultimate proposition of the film-humans must respect nature in order to have a future. At the end of the old child asked Melville: "I heard someone found oil under the ground. "The era of oil is coming, and it will eventually be replaced by other energy sources, other better and cleaner energy sources.
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