After watching the world's first documentary, the first thing I felt, and what I felt most deeply, was the tenacious will to survive that human beings showed in the face of such a harsh living environment. The Esmojis exist in the latitude of Hudson Bay, Canada. This is one of the coldest places in the world. There is no grass and the weather is freezing cold. No one can rely on them except their own family members. Surviving in a desperate situation, they have honed their amazing survivability. They can use only some tools and clothing to make their homes and search for food in the endless arctic wasteland, which is what we modern people have lost. Facing this difficult situation not only in terms of ability, but also in spirit, we always have developed modern technology, but when we really face possible dangers, we may not be as good as them. This kind of optimistic spirit, in the case of only meeting the living conditions, can still show the optimistic attitude of life, which is worth learning from today's human beings. Going back to the film itself, as a humanistic documentary documenting the life of the Esmokeys, I thought it would be rather boring and lacking in plot as a documentary exactly 100 years ago, but it turns out that , I made a mistake of being arrogant. I actually watched this film a hundred years ago with relish from beginning to end, and even some plots were designed to be dramatic and attractive. It is not difficult to understand why this documentary is It attracted great attention in the Western world at that time. It was a curiosity-seeking mentality of the so-called civilized people in the modern West facing the primitive and backward Eskimos, which greatly satisfied the curiosity of human beings in modern society. I personally even I believe that the film's great popularity is a manifestation of a general psychological state of Western expansion at that time, which to some extent promoted the Western world's exploration and colonial invasion of other societies. Of course, this is more of my own unprovoked guess. Going back to the story in the documentary, I had heard that some of the film was designed to be shot before watching it, but when I closed the barrage and simply watched it, I felt that these criticized parts were The design is reasonable, at least in this work, these careful designs allow the viewer to understand what the initial life of these people who were less contaminated by modern civilization was like, better showing the characteristics of this civilization, and at the same time Posing to catch arctic foxes, sleeping in igloos, etc., also helped Western audiences at that time to better understand this civilization and perceive their lives more strongly. So I admire this group of creators who take great risks and challenges , wading into the ice and snow wasteland to use the camera to record the face of a disappearing ethnic group for our earliest and complete records. Their adventurous spirit and tenacity made this moving work. I have been thinking and thinking a lot in the process of watching this work, but when I actually wrote this, I found that I couldn’t remember a lot of words, but in short, to these people who made great efforts to record the state of human civilization Salute and sympathy to the Nanook family who suffered, such a work is a good work that can really have humanistic value.
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