IThis adventure film is based on real events made by Thor Heyerdahl to cross the Pacific Ocean on a ancient design raft to prove his theory of first settlers in Polynesia from Peru. He is a Norwegian explorer and navigator who stayed in Fatu Hiva in Polynesia before the voyage across the Pacific in 100 days. With him were 5 other men; his childhood friend who was an expert on something and who had been actually been to the sea before, an engineer, 2 navigators or a person who operates the radio and a videographer (a person they call a camera man back in the day), on his boat to Polynesia and shoot a documentary while doing so.
This extraordinary true story takes you in account that real adventurers sans the fictional Indiana Jones really do exist. That they rely on heir spirit and skills to venture into the unknown and jump with brave intuition but nourished with courage and faith on believing in something bigger than themselves and plunge into the unknown, towards something no one has ever been or done before. This adventure takes you to thrills and surprises of the beauty of a journey of the wide menacing ocean. It also shows how men in their doubt cling to ones strength in faith to survive.
This is Norway's nominated best foreign language film for the 2013 Oscars. Its very well made, technically in cinematography and in effects with amazing locations and performances. Also the story didn't rely on Hollywood formulas as we see in Survivor or some schemes one can see in a Brad Pitt or celebrity flick, annoying and over acted. It relied on their challenges and the journey that was their biggest fear.
I would not want to tell how this turned in the end. I tried to get a download with English subtitles but disapointingly didn't have English translations for the epilogue in the end. A great watch and truly a flm to treasure, something you would treasure a true find different from the films you see in Hollywood mainstream but equally made in production and technical aspects, and a well written script.
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