Kon-Tiki (2012)
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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Thor Heyerdahl er en norsk folkehelt, og dette filmen gjør ham rettferdighet. As a Norwegian I grew up with the Kon-Tiki story the way other children grow up with fairy tales. The man looked at the Pacific Ocean and said: I will cross it on a wooden raft, and the currents will carry me, because they carried people before me. That is not madness — that is faith in the sea. The film is perhaps a little Hollywood in places, but the ocean does not lie, and neither does the raft. Add it to Saltwater Reels where it belongs.
Thor Heyerdahl crossed 4,300 miles of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft with no engine and no guarantee of survival — just to prove a theory about Polynesian migration. As a sailor, this film fills me with equal parts awe and envy. The sea scenes are stunning and honest. This is what the ocean demands of the truly brave: full commitment, no safety net. Every mariner should make a pilgrimage to watch this film.