This is an adventure drama film released in Canada in 2003, 100 minutes, not long nor short, perfectly narrating the development of a story. The flowing water-like plot moves us and makes us think deeply.
The story is set in 1953, an era of ethnic discrimination, and the Inuit are still an inferior race in the eyes of everyone, primitive and close to nature. The movie mainly tells about a strong man and a petite little girl, how to get out of the vast snowy mountains? What kind of stories will they have in different ethnic groups and different languages?
Stills from Snowwalker
The heroine, Corana, suffers from severe tracheitis and needs to be flown to the doctor. The pilot, Charlie, was found, and at first Charlie was reluctant because he had other larger deals. Korana's family took out two precious tusks to get Charlie's approval. (Seeing this, I despised the male protagonist fiercely in my heart, and saw the guy with open eyes and no conscience.) Such a pure and lovely girl, if I had agreed immediately, I really deserve to be single. ）
Who knows, the plane suddenly broke down halfway, and the two fell into the barren snow field. Charlie tried to fix the radio and send a rescue signal to the outside world, but all this was in vain. At the time of the crash, the machines and meters were invalidated. The character of one person can be seen most in the dilemma, and the film is at this time, deeply describing the personality characteristics of the two people.
The inability to repair the radio made Charlie furious, grinning and kicking at the wreckage of the plane. Korana was calm in the face of this situation, did not waste her strength on unnecessary insults and despair, and looked at Charlie calmly, without saying a word.
After venting, Charlie said that he was going to go out to explore the way, and could not wait to die here to see if there was anyone living nearby. Having said this, he set off with food, fire, and shotgun, regardless of whether the girl understood what he was saying or not, or whether he wanted to bring the girl with him.
Perhaps in his heart, the weak girl was more suitable here to wait for rescue, and the thin body could not face the cold weather outside. Perhaps in his heart, the girl can only become a burden on the road, even if she is a life.
In the picture, we see that Charlie did not take all the canned food with him, leaving at least half of the food behind. It was here that I had a crush on Charlie for the first time. Although he is snobbish and has a bad temper, he at least has a conscience and is not exactly a "bad guy"!
After a few days of nothingness, Charlie was in an even bigger predicament. The sleeping bag was already wet with rain, there was no food, and worse, there was no fire source, and there was no bonfire. The frozen body trembled, and then fell into a groggy sleep.
When he woke up, the rain had stopped, and the girl was by his side, with a bunch of burning campfires, her feet wrapped in unknown herbs and covered in a clean leather robe, and it was the girl who had saved him.
The next two work hard for food, and the girl is clever and knows how to set traps to catch food. Cooking with canned food is more like a girl teaching Charlie wild survival skills than the two of them hunting. The language barrier, but they got along very well, and the girl's illness became more and more serious.
One night, Charlie was asleep and the girl sneaked away! Only Charlie was left alone in the vast snowy field, shouting the girl's name. At this time, I was in tears, and the two of them did not spend a long time together, but I knew that Charlie had fallen deeply in love with this kind girl, and the girl's departure was just unwilling to be Charlie's entanglement!