Great ocean and malignant, Whale grumpy and fishermen Americans are greedy, yes, on paper director Ron Howard have all the ammunition to provide an opportunity for drama biography this latest as one epic survival set in a sea of the best in the modern era after Life of Pi his Angg Lee, especially Howard participated in the capital supported by a story that does not mess around. They call it "The Incridible Based on a True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick".
Novel nonfiction belongs to Nathaniel Philbrick same title which underlies the story In The Heart Of The Sea might popularity is not nothing compared to Moby-Dick of his Herman Melville that in fact become one of the writings of the legendary American who even after one and a half century later after first published in 1851 ago. Sailor adventure story of Ahab chasing the white whale that is still often used as required reading for English lessons in American schools. But of course interesting to see how Melville gain inspiration apparently comes from the real story is no less great.
Opened with the visit of Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) to the old residence of Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) in a mission to find a story for his latest novel. Of course, this is not just a story common to force Melville had to come all the way including offering large sums of money for Thomas Nickerson to tell what really happened behind the story of the sinking of the destroyer Pope, Essex, commanded by George Pollard, Jr. (Benjamin Walker) and The main sailor, Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) that occurred more than five decades ago. A story that whaling that not only large, but also terrible thrilling and inspiring.
We know the long history of Ron Howard when making films good adaptation of a true story or fiction, almost all of them agree that the father of actress Bryce Dallas Howard's got a high-level quality, a totality to dramatize a story that is already quite dramatically to a level more high, just look at his last work, Rush, a biopic that is filled with an injection of rivalry outstanding, or more to the back when he was able to recreate interviews Watergate horrendous in Frost / Nixon or more behind him again when he was able to touch the emotions the audience when tells the life story of boxer James Braddock in Cinderlla Man and mathematician John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, I still do not even mention the Apollo 13 which became one of his best. So of course there were great expectations when Howard is believed to menukangi In The Heart Of The Sea by all major capital a biopic with herbs survival drama.
Yes, it is technically difficult to not be amazed by In The Heart Of The Sea. Howard once again proved his class as a director reliable when he managed to capture dramatic moments nan intense visual quality cinematography cimaik of Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire and special effects topnotch, including camera placement is not unusual that presents a different sensation, while scoring Roque Baños as do not stop to make the situation more dramatic. There are tensions that were built when the fishermen arrogant is never expected to be beaten hands down by his prey. But the best part was too fleeting a pity then continued with the process of survival to be honest, felt empty because of shortage intake chemistry and process development of the characters clearly an important part to bring the emotion in dramas like this. You can not just show scenes of humans starving adrift incoherently in the middle of the vast ocean without a process of strong interaction that should have been can be built from scratch. Characterization is one of the important things in every drama of survival, let alone see the plays similar kinds of Life of Pi, All is Lost or Cast Away, note how strong the effect penokohannya able to make the audience caring and sympathetic, but not here.
With a duration of touch 2 hours, Howard actually had plenty of time to cultivate relationships between the characters, the potential is huge, especially when we can see the concept of rivalry and clash between Owen Chase and George Pollard, Jr. were a bit much reminds me of Niki Lauda and James Hunt in Rush. From there, Howard could actually strengthen arable manuscript Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond) and all the emotional upheaval of capital feud with the two main characters, unfortunately, it's not so. Howard seemed busier attention to all technical matters to how to make In The Heart Of The Sea as beautiful and as grand as possible, but without soul and emotion.