2012 · adventure · drama · true-story
Kon-Tiki
Directed by Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg1h 58m2012
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.
Our read: Kon-Tiki (2012) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded adventure · drama · true-story entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
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