The history of the struggle between man and nature

Kacie 2022-03-24 09:01:44

The movie "Deep Ocean" tells a story that has been repeatedly played out: how human beings fight against nature for their own development. Although such a narrative mode continues, the film's notion that human beings should be afraid of nature, as well as the absurd contrast between the bravery of the whale fight and the new discovery of oil later makes this film absurd. A new idea emerges. The direct influence of this film on me is that the history of human acquisition of whale oil through the film prompted me to conceive a legend about the "elephant". Through consulting historical data, it is found that with the development of my country's past dynasties and the southward migration of civilization, the habitat of wild elephants gradually disappeared from north to south. Although the ancestors did not obtain the energy similar to whale oil that can support social development from elephants, this does not mean that the contradiction between human beings and them is not acute. The story conceived this time actually wants to express a similar idea: Maybe we still need to have a certain fear of nature, because we are not omniscient. (With graffiti and short story ideas)

The story takes place in the Song Dynasty. A village in Yunnan, like its surrounding areas, is often attacked by wild elephants. The local people are deeply affected, but the officials here have never mobilized the local strong men to drive away the wild elephants, and the people in the village seldom complain to the officials about the wild elephants. This abnormal situation was then noticed by the new magistrate who came to work here for the first time. He was dissatisfied with the local people's negative attitude to respond to the victims, and quickly organized a team to prepare to enter the village to drive elephants, but in the end, only one person from the team came back alive. The man later revealed that their group was attacked by a red giant elephant in the local woods. This red elephant is not only powerful but also very cunning. One day they trapped it by setting up a trap. One of its feet was pierced through a large hole by the tip of the iron cone of the "elephant shoe" (organ), but its foot did not Instead of bleeding, he quickly broke free from the trap and crushed several strong men to death in a row. In the next few days, the remaining strong men in the team were already weak and did not plan to drive the elephants anymore, but on the way back, this red elephant actually ambushed in the jungle and attacked us again. In the end, he was the only one. One person managed to escape from the woods.
The magistrate became more and more incredible after hearing about this. He did not believe the experience of the "red elephant" mentioned by the person who came back alone. Instead, he believed that he was suspected of murder and put him in jail. The magistrate then organized a new elephant drive team with a larger number of people. Although he did not believe in the existence of "red elephants", he still equipped the team with more perfect hunting tools, and this time the magistrate himself was the leader of the team. Chang, he believes that no matter what happens this time, they can solve it. In this way, the new team set off for the forest. . . . . . They are about to encounter the elephant, but they don't yet know what terrifying unknown lies beneath the elephant's exterior.

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  • Dusty 2022-04-23 07:01:54

    There are all the pictures that you should have, but there are no emotions that you should have. The running account narrative is at best a glimpse of the history of the American whaling industry with good pictures and special effects [6.0]

  • Lesley 2022-03-22 09:01:42

    The two parts of the shipwreck and the whaling and the shore part, plus the necessary memory and narrative time and space interspersed part, the structure is too complicated, and the proportions and emphasis of each part are not well allocated, which makes the whole film fragmented and rhythm scattered. Of course, the effects are still good.

In the Heart of the Sea quotes

  • Owen Chase: It's a privilege to know the moment of one's death in advance - be able to prepare for it. Cursed to be so far from home - without a chance to say goodbye, without a chance to make peace; without a chance to settle scores. Then let us at least settle those between us, Captain.

    George Pollard: Captain of what?

    Owen Chase: The Essex was lost through no fault of yours. I was as much to blame for...

    George Pollard: You are not the captain! But you were born to do this job. I was just born into it.

    Owen Chase: What do we do, do you think, George? And what offense did we give God to upset him so?

    George Pollard: The only creature to have offended God here is the whale.

    Owen Chase: Not us? In our arrogance, our greed. Look were we find ourselves.

    George Pollard: We are supreme creatures made in God's own likeness. Earthly kings, whose business it is to circumnavigate the planet bestowed to us. To bend nature to our will.

    Owen Chase: You really feel like an earthly king after everything that we've been through? We're nothing. We're... we're specks. And dust.

    George Pollard: We sail into the sun at dawn. If we are to die, then with God's grace, let us die as men.

  • Owen Chase: Benjamin, what are you doing?

    Benjamin Lawrence: He's dead. Putting him overboard, sir.

    Owen Chase: Look at me. Look at me, Benjamin. No right-minded sailor discards what might yet save him.