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*Plot and ending analyzed*
This is a powerful film that has only its beginning and end as a downside, it is a film that concentrates on the relationship between the Nietzschean Beyond Good and Evil duality with a bit of Hamsun thrown in.
The characters involved, a young philosopher/writer, who is innocent, a hard man, who represents corruption and depravity, and the scientist, who is a mixture of both of them with the added cognitive sense of reason, are all put into a fiery situation, namely a Sartrean "Hell", as they find themselves on a deserted island near the arctic, capturing skins for a company that is in Norway. At first they get along, but the stubborn man keeps bothering the poet and soon they are at odds with one another, eventually resulting in the destruction of one of them.
I didn't like the beginning because it was pretentious, and the end was too malicious, but an excellent film indeed for its descent into the schism of human understanding and contemplation.
*Plot and ending analyzed*
This is a powerful film that has only its beginning and end as a downside, it is a film that concentrates on the relationship between the Nietzschean Beyond Good and Evil duality with a bit of Hamsun thrown in.
The characters involved, a young philosopher/writer, who is innocent, a hard man, who represents corruption and depravity, and the scientist, who is a mixture of both of them with the added cognitive sense of reason, are all put into a fiery situation, namely a Sartrean "Hell", as they find themselves on a deserted island near the arctic, capturing skins for a company that is in Norway. At first they get along, but the stubborn man keeps bothering the poet and soon they are at odds with one another, eventually resulting in the destruction of one of them.
I didn't like the beginning because it was pretentious, and the end was too malicious, but an excellent film indeed for its descent into the schism of human understanding and contemplation.