Was the person who introduced this film blind?
The first impression is that the grain of the picture is thicker, not like a contemporary film of digital high-definition, it seems that I want to pursue an old documentary style. It's actually more of a documentary, because it's a biography of early twentieth century adventurer Percy Fawcett. For family honor and personal ambition, Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) teamed up three times to explore the Amazon basin in the more than ten years spanning "World War I", and on the last expedition in 1925, he was with him. The eldest son both disappeared. This man is said to be the prototype of Indiana Jones. According to the online introduction, the mainland version of the film has been deleted by 37 minutes. I want to express a lot of content, such as class discrimination in British society, colonial issues in South America, the awakening of women's demand for equal rights, the greed of capitalists, the cruelty of war, and the barbaric mystery of Indian tribes, etc., but it's all there. Because it is not the full version, it is not easy to speculate on the intentions of director James Gray. But the film's white perspective is uncomfortable. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" doesn't have this problem, because Spielberg comes from a Jewish ethnicity that suffers from discrimination. Some things are deeply rooted, and history should not be forgotten! Although using the guise of fate with Russian witches and suggesting that it would be worse for the Americans to go, none of them can give Fawcett's expedition to Z City a righteous hat. In the historical view of white Europeans, the unknown world is a "desert" without civilization, the civilizations created by other races are ignorant and primitive, exploration is only a prelude, and occupying the "new world" is the goal, so follow the footsteps of their explorers It's a heavily armed army. This is true in Africa, in Asia, in Oceania, and in North and South America. The problem with "The Lost City of Z" is that it pursues historical truth and thus brings out a real white perspective. As an inheritor of an ancient civilization that has been "explored", you will be obsessed with exploring the Amazon for risking your life, knowing that the success of such an "exploration" may be the plunder of local resources and the demise of the original civilization. Are the Fawcett family in the ancient city of gold moved? I can't do it anyway.
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