*****spoilers***** Long drawn out story about an Inuit/Eskimo boys seemingly accidental death from a fall from the roof of the apartment building in which he and his mother lived in Copenhagen and ending up in the icy northern waters off Greenland. With an massive explosion that put an end to a 30 year quest for an energy producing meteorite.
This meteorite crashed into that cold ice capped sea some 150 years ago that carried on in a colony of pre-historic worms. These alien worm came to life when the meteorite hit the waters and some 150 years later infected and killed four men from the expedition, including the boys father. This happened when they came in contact with the melt water around the meteorite.
The movie "Smilla's Sense of Snow" held one's interest up to a point with Smilla, Julia Ormond, a mathematician coming home one afternoon and finding out that the boy Isaiah, Clipper Miano, who Smilla befriended was killed from a fall from the roof of the building. Taking a personal interest in the boys death Smilla checks out clues that leads her to the Greenland Mining Company which employed Isaiah's father in that expedition.
Smilla soon learns that Isaiah was being monitored by the company monthly to see if he was infected by the worms that killed his father and his three fellow workers. That's because Isaiah also went into the melt water himself to try to save his father but nothing seemed to have happened to him. The movie starts to get confused and falls apart when Smilla begins to overcome odds on top of odds with bodies falling all around her as she gets to the meteorite crash site with the chief villain Tork, Richard Harris. With him not having a clue to who Smilla was and what she was up to until the very end.
Smilla wasn't exactly that secretive about her intentions with every one, the police the Greenland Mining Company as well as the hospital staff that attended the boy ,knowing about her intentions. With the unexpected hero, besides Smilla of course, turning out to be her wimpy and weird neighbor Mechanic played by Gabriel Byrne. It was Mechanic who in the end turned out to be a James Bond type undercover man who was both undercover as well as under the covers with Smilla during the entire movie.
In the end Tork, as well as the confused theater audience, gets the story straight to what really happened to the young Eskimo boy from Smilla just before the whole expedition site exploded and with Tork himself deep sixths in the cold icy Arctic waters.
This meteorite crashed into that cold ice capped sea some 150 years ago that carried on in a colony of pre-historic worms. These alien worm came to life when the meteorite hit the waters and some 150 years later infected and killed four men from the expedition, including the boys father. This happened when they came in contact with the melt water around the meteorite.
The movie "Smilla's Sense of Snow" held one's interest up to a point with Smilla, Julia Ormond, a mathematician coming home one afternoon and finding out that the boy Isaiah, Clipper Miano, who Smilla befriended was killed from a fall from the roof of the building. Taking a personal interest in the boys death Smilla checks out clues that leads her to the Greenland Mining Company which employed Isaiah's father in that expedition.
Smilla soon learns that Isaiah was being monitored by the company monthly to see if he was infected by the worms that killed his father and his three fellow workers. That's because Isaiah also went into the melt water himself to try to save his father but nothing seemed to have happened to him. The movie starts to get confused and falls apart when Smilla begins to overcome odds on top of odds with bodies falling all around her as she gets to the meteorite crash site with the chief villain Tork, Richard Harris. With him not having a clue to who Smilla was and what she was up to until the very end.
Smilla wasn't exactly that secretive about her intentions with every one, the police the Greenland Mining Company as well as the hospital staff that attended the boy ,knowing about her intentions. With the unexpected hero, besides Smilla of course, turning out to be her wimpy and weird neighbor Mechanic played by Gabriel Byrne. It was Mechanic who in the end turned out to be a James Bond type undercover man who was both undercover as well as under the covers with Smilla during the entire movie.
In the end Tork, as well as the confused theater audience, gets the story straight to what really happened to the young Eskimo boy from Smilla just before the whole expedition site exploded and with Tork himself deep sixths in the cold icy Arctic waters.