{"id":299772,"date":"2021-07-15T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-harrowing-journey-into-the-icy-north-water\/"},"modified":"2021-07-15T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:00:11","slug":"a-harrowing-journey-into-the-icy-north-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-harrowing-journey-into-the-icy-north-water\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Harrowing Journey Into the Icy ‘North Water\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A Harrowing Journey Into the Icy ‘North Water\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a cure for the sweltering dog days of summer: a journey into the icy Arctic, courtesy of an ill-fated whaling expedition replete with murder, treachery and the near-collapse of what passes for 1800s civilization. By the time the grueling journey into The North Water<\/em><\/a> is over, your blood may well have run cold.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s certainly the experience of disgraced Army surgeon Patrick Sumner (Jack O\u2019Connell<\/a> of Netflix\u2019s Godless<\/em><\/a>), the very flawed hero in writer\/director Andrew Haigh\u2019s gripping five-part adaptation of Ian McGuire\u2019s celebrated novel. (Episodes stream weekly on Thursday on AMC+.) A laudanum addict tormented by memories of war in India, Sumner signs up to be the ship\u2019s doctor aboard the whaling vessel Volunteer<\/em>, where he\u2019s often a lone voice of civility, morals, and ethics.<\/p>\n

The seas are rough and the men even rougher\u2014especially Sumner\u2019s nemesis, the brutishly psychopathic harpooner Henry Drax (Colin Farrell<\/a> in sinister wolfman mode). His taunting of the not-as-good-as-he-seems doctor takes on an even more frightening edge after Sumner voices his suspicions following a shipboard murder.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not like the drugged-up Sumner set sail to make friends, anyway. \u201cTo me, they are bodies only,\u201d he muses in voice-over narration. \u201cIt is not my task to judge, soothe or befriend them. In my current state, I have very little comfort to give.\u201d<\/p>\n

The influences in this literary thriller are many. Melville would love the authenticity of the whaling scenes, filmed on location in the frigid Arctic, while Conrad would app<\/a>reciate the heart of darkness that lies within the unrepentant Drax and even the ship\u2019s corrupt captain (Stephen Graham<\/a>), whose mission has less to do with whaling than fraud.<\/p>\n

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Jack O\u2019Connell as Patrick Sumner, Stephen Graham as Captain Brownlee (Nick Wall\/BBC Studios\/AMC+)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When Sumner\u2019s meddling leads to further calamity, The North Water<\/em> becomes an even more riveting tale of survival, with Sumner eventually succumbing to his basest animal nature in a graphic scene that\u2019s so primitive and primal you wonder if he\u2019s passed the point of no return. But greater evil is yet in store in a climax that\u2019s more cathartic than redemptive.<\/p>\n

If Cormac McCarthy is your idea of a light summer read, then The North Water <\/em>will be just your cup of tainted poison.<\/p>\n

The North Water, <\/em><\/strong>Series<\/a> Premiere, Thursday, July 15, AMC+<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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