The film tells the story of Thor Heyerdahl (played by Norsk actor Pål Sverre Hagen) a Norwegian explorer who we meet on the island of Polynesia. There he discovers plants native to South America and the idea sparks in his mind when he hears the story of Tiki, the sun God, who had traveled on a raft to Polynesia. He writes a theory that is almost immediately rejected, one person telling him that if he could build a raft and sail from Peru to Polynesia, they'll believe him. And that's exactly what he ends up doing.
The visual direction is just stunning! Kon-Tiki is reportedly Norway's most expensive film that they've made, and it shows! And while it is flawed, it is mostly faithful (at least compared to a lot of Hollywood biopics) with its storytelling. Most of what Rønning and Sandberg's direction style is to take the real events and crank up the intensity. And while it does result in misrepresentation of facts, it works relatively well thematically.
If you cannot tell, the movie does show and feature inspirational messages about persistence in the world of skepticism. Mr. Heyerdahl is one of those fascinating and inspirational figures in history that's never talked about in American schools, I don't quite know why. While this movie started off slow and was having hard keeping me, my attention caught on right when the characters set out on sea.
Content wise, it's pretty tame. Mostly six guys and a parrot on a boat resting, but there is some peril. There is also one scene involving the killing of a shark that would be disturbing to the faint of heart.
The visual direction is just stunning! Kon-Tiki is reportedly Norway's most expensive film that they've made, and it shows! And while it is flawed, it is mostly faithful (at least compared to a lot of Hollywood biopics) with its storytelling. Most of what Rønning and Sandberg's direction style is to take the real events and crank up the intensity. And while it does result in misrepresentation of facts, it works relatively well thematically.
If you cannot tell, the movie does show and feature inspirational messages about persistence in the world of skepticism. Mr. Heyerdahl is one of those fascinating and inspirational figures in history that's never talked about in American schools, I don't quite know why. While this movie started off slow and was having hard keeping me, my attention caught on right when the characters set out on sea.
Content wise, it's pretty tame. Mostly six guys and a parrot on a boat resting, but there is some peril. There is also one scene involving the killing of a shark that would be disturbing to the faint of heart.
