The Snow Walker
Nominated for 9 Genie Awards!
Based on the short story Walk Well My Brother by Farley Mowat, Snow Walker tells the story of a maverick bush pilot named Charlie Halliday. While deviating from his flight plan, Charlie crashes in a remote area of Canada's Arctic. His only chance for survival is his ill passenger, a beautiful young Inuit woman named Kanaalaq. Through her guidance, Halliday learns to dispel his preconceptions and prejudices in order to adapt to the environment, live off the land, and somehow traverse the vast barren tundra to make it back to his world alive.
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A MUST watch! - movie_goer
The Snow Walker: This film is based on a short story written by Farley Mowat. Its Directed by Charles M Smith. If I hadn't done my research for the film I'd have easily been convinced it was Based on a Truly Remarkable story!
The straight to DVD, is unsespectingly beautiful and misheard for all the wrong reasons.
I perferrably like Annabella Piugattuk's acting and presence she was a good choice for the role, unfortunatelly there's not much of her acting to go around (only a 2005 mini series somewhere in the vast world of forgotten TV). I was so surprised to see Michael Buble in this! Still A film worth investing a night over take away with the entire family.Sustaining Life - RoddyPiper
There is a scene in a restaurant early in this film, where an alcoholic Inuit man is trying to sell a piece of cloth with a painting on it for five dollars. He is jeered by various customers, pushed and shoved into others, and eventually the restaurant proprietor picks him up and throws him into the snow and garbage outside the door. The Inuit’s agonized features in the snow is like the face beneath the melting watch in Dali’s Persistence of Memory.
World cultures being destroyed are like the various species of life that disappear in the course of supporting the 6 billion of us on Earth – according to scientific research the world is driving 200 life forms into extinction every day, day after day after day.
This movie made me consider how our white culture’s effect on the Inuit and Native is like that of Scotch Broom on the North American landscape. Looking at the dominant cultures of the world, does the present way of life create such a superior quality of human being that we can afford to let it choke out the Inuit character? Can we really absorb the loss of cultures like that of the Inuit, created over millennia, and incarnated in this movie by the wonderful young Inuit woman?
I agree with Moir’s view of this awesome film.deeply inspiring - highest recommendation - Moir
There are many reasons this film is so appealing besides the film making itself.
It goes far beyond anything I can adequately put into words.
Besides everything else it reminded me that life is not just RRSPs and security and 'wise financial planning' and worrying over a dozen things we are encouraged to 'nail down' and double check regularly, and all that cloud of details that basically are no more to life than mosquitoes or black flies in clouds. Carelessly dealing with them may weaken you and even make death more likely or ultimately bring it on but they are not life.
It made me feel again that life is the beating heart, the acceptance of how hard thngs can be and when necessary the gutty determination of enduring as well as one can, but also of the joy of being human that somehow grows like lichen on the hard seeming stone of reality. This the film reminded me, as well as of a number of other things. I am awed by it.
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A MUST watch! - movie_goer
The Snow Walker: This film is based on a short story written by Farley Mowat. Its Directed by Charles M Smith. If I hadn't done my research for the film I'd have easily been convinced it was Based on a Truly Remarkable story!
The straight to DVD, is ...Sustaining Life - RoddyPiper
There is a scene in a restaurant early in this film, where an alcoholic Inuit man is trying to sell a piece of cloth with a painting on it for five dollars. He is jeered by various customers, pushed and shoved into others, and eventually the restaurant proprietor ...deeply inspiring - highest recommendation - Moir
There are many reasons this film is so appealing besides the film making itself.
It goes far beyond anything I can adequately put into words.
Besides everything else it reminded me that life is not just RRSPs and security and 'wise financial ...