Nanook of the North was a very action-packed film. It kept my attention all the way throughout the whole movie. It pretty much gave an example of the life of an Eskimo and displays his daily activities. Usually when I watch movie or films about the life of a person I get bored because everyone’s life is NOT interesting obviously. It was a fight to drag a walrus harpooned out of the water which was extremely interesting and which obviously could not have been acted out. The sledding and pulling of such a heavy animal and seeing what they go through to protect themselves and the task and struggle to feed themselves and their families. They pulled tons of weight with a smile. I watched that in amazement. They hustle like any poor person on the street to provide and to keep themselves up. What really got me is the fact that Nanook and the others smiled as do their deadly daily tasks of hunting and gathering. I always wondered how the Eskimos made the igloos stay up and how they made them. That was the most interesting thing for me watching them build the igloo and watching Nanook make a lookout window. It shows how clever and smart the Eskimo people really are and how much they enjoy their lives even in the toughest events such as when he could not get the seal out of the water that he tried to harpoon and bring in. This film is a celebration of the Eskimo people.
