I enjoyed it, but it felt like it could have gone somewhere else, somewhere further.. but I guess that's on the book.
Very competently made, but also very 'ordinary' as in.. I think I've seen this story a hundred times? I probably haven't, but it feels like I have.
Ending was very.. quick? 🦘
🐐 The ice bear imagery, hmm.. I wish they did more with the whale imagery? I wonder if they consulted with indigenous people from the area for the story and portrayal. Didn't seem too bad?
🦏 But it is a story once again about white men raping and pillaging.
Can someone else here explain what kind of feeling or sensation they get from this kind of story?
I get the whole tension thing. It's pretty tense at times. But I also really don't get it. Or I get that it's some kind of contemplation on imperialism, violence, evil, good actions/evil actions.... and money.
But at the same time...... I kind of wonder what it is. It's also a period/costume drama, so I guess it came also from a love of/interest in the period and the swanky aesthetics. 🐔
Hmm. These kinds of stories really just help to desensitize me to more violence, rape and pillage. Nothing in this show surprised me? It was very like, of course he did every single one of the most abhorrent things you can imagine. Of course.
I just wonder what I got from it, except from a bit of cool visuals and some escapism. I wish it tried for more, or that I could understand it on a deeper level.
edit: I guess maybe that's what it's about? Being inundated to cruelty? And cruelty being the only way out? I dunno. 🐳
