Tribute to "Youth Pi" and look down on "The Mermaid"

Luigi 2022-03-24 09:01:44


Does this poster feel like "The Mermaid"? You said that "The Mermaid" is an environmental protection film. After watching this film, I dare not say that the expression of environmental protection in "The Mermaid" is too superficial, but the expression of "Deep Ocean" is deeply rooted.
The structure of the whole film is similar to the fantasy drifting of the youth pie: the same is the writer finding the person to discover the story, the same experience of drifting in the sea after the disaster, and even the ending has a similar ending. In terms of the theme of expression, you can find the two films in common, that is - human nature, nature.
This film can be divided into three sections. The Essex is a section before encountering the white whale. This section expresses that people want to plunder nature in order to satisfy their own greed, thinking that people can dominate everything-- -- This is evident in the first mate's disdain after hearing about the beluga and what the captain of the island said to the first mate; the head-to-head confrontation between Essex and the beluga mermaid The second part of the beluga whale chasing and killing the surviving crew members is the second part. This part can be seen as the bitter fruit of human beings and the resistance of nature. The crew's aura and lofty attitude disappeared under the slap of the white whale's tail. The previous part The person who is still the master suddenly becomes insignificant, and the pictures and plots focus on showing the horror of nature's revenge, the helplessness and powerlessness of man in front of nature; from the beginning of leaving the island, the director's focus is on human nature. The extreme lack of water and food shows the humanity of the crew in order to survive. From some people on the island who choose to stay alive, some people choose to stay who are unwilling to drag down their companions, to the difficult decision to eat people on the broken ship, to the lottery to decide who will die, to the captain choosing to tell the truth at the hearing, etc. In this section, the brilliance of human nature is shown in the film more than the dark side --- from the first mate raising the anchor gun on the boat but dropping the anchor gun after making eye contact with the beluga whale, dropping the anchor gun from the first mate and the beluga whale no longer chasing and killing The crew can see that in the part where the mermaid's eyes met, perhaps the director wanted to express that people finally know how to be in awe of nature, and the brilliance of human nature finally reached the sympathy between the writer and the storyteller, and after the wife heard her husband's past experiences The same can be seen in the unwavering love expressed for the husband.
This film is excellent from both a commercial and an artistic point of view: if you want a shocking scene, it will be given to you; if you want an exciting plot, it will be given to you; you need to be clear or meaningful, and even something that society is facing in common. Themes are also given to you. Can you give it five stars?

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Extended Reading
  • Keenan 2021-11-28 08:01:20

    Deconstruct "Moby Dick". (There is a detail: even if you change from a big ship to a small boat, the first officer still symbolically equips it with an anchor with a small object) Finally, the mention of oil-"oil from land", seems to be another cycle of human forgetfulness. .

  • Jovani 2022-03-29 09:01:02

    So boring... 15 years of post-production special effects should be so rough? Sailing and whaling, survival in the wilderness, and drifting, too many elements of cannibalism

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.