180°以南 180° South (2010) Movie Script

And I told my brother : "Can I go there ?" because he had so much fun,

he said:

"No, it's only for men." and then one day I thought: "I'll take me there, because I wanna see." I went and it was fun !

And I was the only woman for a long time, maybe 10 years.

When I'm in big cities, surrounded by cars or smog, I just close my eyes and I think about Rapa Nui, the blue sky, the nice people, the ocean, the waves, I just think about that, in my mind and that makes me strong, just having Rapa Nui.

I don't want Rapa Nui to change, I want it to be like this.

Days have turned into weeks.

When the sea is calm we work on the boat.

When it comes to life, I explore the volcanic coast line with Makohe.

This island has taken us in like family.

As the weeks pass, I tell Makohe about my plan to climb Corcovado.

Without hesitation, she asks if she can come along.

At this point, I wonder if any of us will make it to Patagonia on the boat, but I promised her I'll ask Allan if we can squeeze one more person on board.

Yvon had told me about Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" and how Diamond presents Easter Island as a cautionary tale, a grim example of a society that exceeded its resources and suffered the consequences.

When the first European set foot on Easter Island, in 1700 something, all the Moais were all standing up right, but as the population increased, the people started separating out into different little tribes, putting all their time and energy into, you know, outdoing each other, making larger and larger Moais, and that became the central focus of the entire society.

It took priority over survival, almost, and eventually, they would cut down their entire forest to transport these giant carved stones.

And this became such an obsession that they depleted the island's resources, let the tribal warfare, cannibalism, and eventually, the population of the island, from 30,000 was finally reduced down to 119 people.

I've met Jared Diamond a few times and talked about his book "Collapse", and how all the different societies of the past that he studied have collapsed,

and that:

"what does that means for our society?" and in the end he really says that we're making all the same mistake that all these other societies have made.

As a story of Easter Island goes, so goes the planet.

It's a haunting thought, and I'm beginning to see these statues a little differently.

I remember a quote I read one time from Aldous Huxley, it never resonated with me much until now.

He wrote:

"Men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, and that is the most important of all the lessons of history." There wasn't a harbor on the island big enough to get in to fix our mast, so we have to figure out how to do the repair while anchored off-shore.

Allan got a wholesome old plan sailors have used for centuries when forced to remast while at sea.

With no proper boat building equipment, these archaic blueprints are our only option.

We spent a month getting ready to rehoist our mast, and we've used everything we could get our hands on.