Passage
2008 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 81 VOTES · DIR. John Walker
Overview
With a unique blend of dramatic action and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, filmmaker John Walker shares the multi-layered story of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, who perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, and John Rae, the Scottish doctor who in 1851, discovered their dismal fate. Rae's dark report, which described the crew’s madness and cannibalism, did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign to discredit Rae's version of events and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the label of murderous cannibals. A stunning face-to-face meeting between the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens and Tagak Curley, an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history, vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.
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00:01:35 This neighborhood was designed...
00:02:33 The only thing that interested them...
00:03:50 what he thinks about himself
00:04:24 Youth passed away...
00:04:56 This group lived on the margins of the economy.
00:05:40 in winter and night.
00:06:27 On the bank of the river...
00:07:21 The refusal of time and of growing old...
00:08:09 When freedom is practiced in a closed circle
00:08:55 where people met only by chance
00:09:30 so easy to understand...
00:09:58 of such a documentary.
00:10:38 and of all the old codes of conduct...
00:11:18 to their work and their home
00:12:05 that it would be necessary...
00:12:38 Their very landscape is animated.
00:13:14 educative and administrative
00:13:50 come to an end.
00:14:38 is precisely its out-of-reach objectivity.
00:15:28 Once again, morning in the same streets.
00:16:35 on being authors of films, as others were of novels.
00:17:04 can use it to complacently express their servile sentiments?
00:17:41 A pathetic need, arising out of a dismal and anonymous life...
00:18:31 what has been done