Directed by: Joachim Rønning
Starring: Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Agnes Kittelsen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Jacob Oftebro
Running time: 118 minutes
There's a saying in Indonesia; "My ancestors were sailors". As an archipelago, long long time ago (not in a galaxy far far away), we had tough sailors. I myself have once heard the Kon-Tiki tale when I was a kid, I read it in a used book somewhere and I find it amazing (also crazy) to sail across the fierce ocean with a hand made raft not made in today's technology.
I thought Norwegian only good at ski sport, but they can sail too. It is proven by Thor Heyerdahl who sail from Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Island in 1947 with bands of men to prove his theory that the Polynesian people were originated from South America, not Asia. He made the documentary of his 6900 km voyage, titled also Kon-Tiki which won Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1951.
Now, it becomes something of a kind that the dramatized version of this Norway hero, also running for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscar. Should this beat Amour (A tough one since most people are 70% sure that Amour will win), a beautiful history will be made.
For your information; only six other Norwegian films have ever been nominated for an Oscar, besides the original Kon-Tiki documentary, there were the animated short film Den danske dikteren, which also won, plus Ni Liv in 1957, Veiviseren in 1988, Søndagsengler in 1996 and Elling in 2001.
Acted by Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, the film told Heyerdahl's struggle to have his voyage financed. Eventually he had the money from private loans and donation from United States Army and strength from his wife, Liv (Agnes Kittelsen).
Together with refrigerator salesman Hermann Watzinger (Anders Baasmo Christiansen), Torstein Raaby (Jakob Oftebro), Knut Haugland (Tobias Santelmann) and Erik Hesselberg (Odd-Magnus Williamson) they sail to the sea.
Although the raft was made with the same technology existed 1500 years ago, what they carry are a little bit modern. They had food supply they stocked for 100 days, shark repellant, radio, even books.
The whole film is beautiful, it does not overly glorify Heyerdahl as a hero, but make him as a human. Most of the scenes are at sea and some scenes will remind you of Life of Pi. In a normal Hollywood movie, these men will engage in fist fight once they are at sea, but here, it does not succumbs to such cliche, and that is what I like.
Starring: Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Agnes Kittelsen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Jacob Oftebro
Running time: 118 minutes
There's a saying in Indonesia; "My ancestors were sailors". As an archipelago, long long time ago (not in a galaxy far far away), we had tough sailors. I myself have once heard the Kon-Tiki tale when I was a kid, I read it in a used book somewhere and I find it amazing (also crazy) to sail across the fierce ocean with a hand made raft not made in today's technology.
I thought Norwegian only good at ski sport, but they can sail too. It is proven by Thor Heyerdahl who sail from Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Island in 1947 with bands of men to prove his theory that the Polynesian people were originated from South America, not Asia. He made the documentary of his 6900 km voyage, titled also Kon-Tiki which won Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1951.
Now, it becomes something of a kind that the dramatized version of this Norway hero, also running for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscar. Should this beat Amour (A tough one since most people are 70% sure that Amour will win), a beautiful history will be made.
For your information; only six other Norwegian films have ever been nominated for an Oscar, besides the original Kon-Tiki documentary, there were the animated short film Den danske dikteren, which also won, plus Ni Liv in 1957, Veiviseren in 1988, Søndagsengler in 1996 and Elling in 2001.
Acted by Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, the film told Heyerdahl's struggle to have his voyage financed. Eventually he had the money from private loans and donation from United States Army and strength from his wife, Liv (Agnes Kittelsen).
Together with refrigerator salesman Hermann Watzinger (Anders Baasmo Christiansen), Torstein Raaby (Jakob Oftebro), Knut Haugland (Tobias Santelmann) and Erik Hesselberg (Odd-Magnus Williamson) they sail to the sea.
Although the raft was made with the same technology existed 1500 years ago, what they carry are a little bit modern. They had food supply they stocked for 100 days, shark repellant, radio, even books.
The whole film is beautiful, it does not overly glorify Heyerdahl as a hero, but make him as a human. Most of the scenes are at sea and some scenes will remind you of Life of Pi. In a normal Hollywood movie, these men will engage in fist fight once they are at sea, but here, it does not succumbs to such cliche, and that is what I like.
One scene is very beautiful where the camera zooms out the raft until the sky being seen and then the earth, up to the sky where milky way galaxy above the earth and then zoom in slowly back to the sea. It is amazing and humbling, it makes us realize how small we are in this universe.
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