In anthropology class, the class watched this seminal documentary together.
The disembarkation plot at the beginning of the film is very subversive. There are so many people hidden in the small boat.
This film is indeed excellent. It showed a rare humanistic concern at that time, and it held the goodwill of equality and appreciation for the life of the Eskimos, from which people could feel the tenacious and tenacious vitality of the Eskimos at close range.
At the same time, this is also an organically structured narrative film. The survival of the Eskimos and their struggle against nature in harsh environments is not a simple journal record, but rather a relatively complete life segment is selected very smoothly. , has a certain interest and continuity.
However, when I saw half of it and looked up the related controversy of this documentary, I could no longer continue to "watch" their lives with a peaceful mind. In order to have better lighting, the Nanook family completed the filming of dressing and undressing in half of the igloo, and this "posing" behavior caused a lot of controversy. The saddest thing is that in order to cater to the filming of the film, the Nanook family did not prepare enough food storage, and finally Nanook, an excellent hunter, starved to death in the process of finding food for his family. On the one hand, the entry of outsiders made the life and culture of the Eskimos known to more people, but on the other hand, it affected their normal life and even paid the price of their lives. This is extremely heart-wrenching, and it further ponders the ethical issues in anthropological research and documentary filming.
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