Every year, the BBC produces several classics.
Following the "Race against the Clock" some time ago, the BBC has launched a mini-series again.
The ups and downs of the plot, the texture of the movie blockbuster -
"North Sea Whale Dream"
The North Water
Adapted from the award-winning novel of the same name by Ian McGuire, "The Dream of the Whale of the North Sea" is interlocking and moving, and its profound writing skills have attracted thousands of fans.
The original book won the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award and was named one of the New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year.
The male protagonist is Jack O'Connell in "Godless", this time playing a doctor on a whaling ship.
The villain male second is the Hollywood god Colin Farrell, who is familiar to us, playing a cruel and cold-blooded harpooner.
Stephen Graham, who has a brilliant performance in "Race against the Clock", plays the captain of the ship in the play.
Just looking at the protagonist configuration is full of expectations.
The story focuses on a catastrophic whaling operation in the 19th century...
Whaling began in the 17th century and reached its peak in the 18th and 19th centuries, with tens of thousands of people engaged in whaling.
Whales were indispensable to the society of the time, and the reason was that their bodies were rich in oil, which was a very fat-rich animal oil, which could not only be used to make candles, but also used to synthesize explosives, and even used to make soaps and refine high-grade lubricants.
In addition, whale baleen and whale bones can also be reprocessed and applied to all walks of life, it can be said that the society at that time was inseparable from whales.
However, overhurried spawning led to a sharp decline in whale populations, and the advent of oil gradually replaced whales, leading to the decline of the whaling business.
But Captain Brownley still had a dream of whaling, and a failed whaling operation many years ago made him want to prove himself.
So he decided to try again, driving the whaling ship "Volunteer" north to find rare whales, and once again made a fortune.
To this end, he recruited many people to go with him, including the ship's doctor Sumner and the harpooner Darax.
Sumner and Darax are two very different kinds of people.
The former is a polite doctor, reading and writing a diary every day;
Brother Fei Gongzi, a fight can be knocked down by someone with one punch.
The latter is a real and rough person, daily prostitution, alcoholism, fighting, are all basic exercises;
Just because a man who had bought him wine did not buy him a second drink, he killed him while the other party was drunk.
However, they also have similarities, that is, they all have a mysterious past that is not known.
Sumner said he was discharged from the army after he was busy settling an inheritance dispute with relatives, but in fact he was demobilized, and we don't know what happened.
Daracus's various performances undoubtedly prove that he is a cold man, but what was his identity before he became a whaler, and what made him what he is now?
Aside from the mystery of the two men's identities, the entire volunteer ship is a huge lie, and the people on board are pregnant with ghost babies.
And behind this whaling trip, there is another dirty and terrible conspiracy...
"North Sea Whale Dream" currently has a Douban score of 8.6, a total of four episodes, one episode is about an hour.
Although only one episode has been produced, it is not difficult to see the texture of the whole drama, whether it is the picture of the episode or the acting skills of the actors, it is very interesting.
The most powerful scene in the first episode is the hunting of seals.
There were thousands of seals lying on the ice, but after the whalers passed, only corpses and muddy blood were left.
The poor seals were powerless to fight back under the guns and swords, and had to be slaughtered.
Whalers disemboweled dead seals and skinned them as spoils.
Darax was always the strongest one, and people cheered for him.
At the same time, the vice-captain also invited Sumner to join him, but in fact he was worried about the items in Sumner's luggage.
So they deliberately left Sumner behind, and the weak Sumner almost ran out of energy when he hunted the seals, and accidentally fell into the cold water.
Whether he will survive is unknown, and all this is just his first lesson in this wilderness land...
It's a good habit to like it!