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We Men Are Wretched Things: Directed by Andrew Haigh. With Kieran Urquhart, Jack O'Connell, Roland Møller, Stephen Graham. The ship has reached rich Artic waters.
The North Water Quotes Showing 1-30 of 33. “He finds the lying comes easy enough, of course. Words are just noises in a certain order, and he can use them any way he wishes. Pigs grunt, ducks quack, and men tell lies: that is how it generally goes.” ― Ian McGuire, The North Water. 14 likes. Like.
- Ian Mcguire
- 2016
Jul 21, 2021 · Sumner: As we travel north towards Baffin Bay, the crew are kept busy splicing whale lines and overhauling harpoons. Morale seems high after the success of the sealing and the men are desperate to hunt some fish.
The North Water is a place of brutal honesty, where men confront their own mortality. Quotes Interpret The dark water whispers its secrets, but only the brave dare to listen.
For ‘We Men Are Wretched Things’ saw Patrick Sumner survive his horrific encounter with the cold and having a near brush with an icy death, definitely gave him pause and perspective, the kind that left him pondering upon what kind of man he was going to become after this.
Verdict. After half of the first episode being spent in Hull, it's good to now have the whole episode being onboard ship. The confinement and the claustrophobia and the smallness of the environment are well done and the whole whale killing scenes were well executed. Book to TV Adaptation.
Jul 22, 2021 · We Men Are Wretched Things. The ship has reached rich Artic waters. As all crew are urged to help hunt seals, surgeon Patrick Sumner feels obliged to volunteer, but almost drowns and suffers even worse nightmares about Gaurav, the Indian orphan boy he failed to protect as promised.
