After a decade of anthropological investigations on the island of Polynesia, the scientist Saul believes that the first people to come to Polynesia were South Americans. However, no one in the scientific community believed his theory at that time, because South America was in the Stone Age at that time, and the only means of navigation were rafts. It is believed that the ancients could travel from South America to the middle of the Pacific Ocean across a sea surface of more than 5,000 miles with only rafts. Oceania? So Saul, who hit the wall everywhere, made a bold decision to make a raft completely imitating the Indian shipbuilding method at that time, without using any modern craftsmanship, and then sailing from Peru to Polynesia.
It is not so much a scientific expedition as it is a journey from modern times back to ancient times, which is the most primitive interpretation of the word "exploration". When human beings are immersed in the technological prosperity brought about by the adventures of their ancestors, they have quietly gone away from the most primitive spirit of adventure. In fact, primitive is the real meaning of "exploration". The original here does not refer to the original in the equipment, but the original in the purpose. Human beings have not been satisfied with the state of being ignorant of foreign objects since their birth. How long human beings exist, this curiosity will exist for as long as possible. This kind of existence has nothing to do with equipment. This is human nature, whether it is a raft or a spaceship. , the most primitive curiosity of human beings for the unknown is the true meaning of exploration.
So the film's Sol said: "In the eyes of people at that time, the ocean is not an obstacle, but a channel of communication."
However, the progress of technology has helped human beings but shackled their hearts of adventure. At the beginning of the film no one is optimistic about Thor's voyage, the sailors use their "advanced theories" to prove that their rafts can't last in the water for that long, and those scholars chatter and repeat with their mouths "It is impossible for humans to cross the Pacific Ocean on a raft" . Behold, human beings with advanced equipment are restrained by the equipment to their curiosity about the unknown and their courage to face the unknown.
But Sol proved, and "The Lonely Raft" proved that when the first humans stood up and decided to explore, what they asked themselves the most was definitely not: "Is my equipment okay?", it should be: "I really Do you want to explore the unknown?
" From advanced to primitive, "The Raft" explains what exploration is and why we should explore.
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