![]() ![]() In other words, Melville narrates a story in which Nickerson narrates a story about Chase. Nickerson then tells his tale … which focuses mostly on the ship’s first mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth). Hence, the script’s odd framing device, in which Melville (played by Ben Whishaw) tracks down an aging, haunted sailor named Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who served as a young crewman on the doomed ship. The film is an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick’s best-selling book about the 1820 tragedy of the whaling ship Essex, which reportedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. ![]() “How does one come to know the unknowable?” are the words that begin Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea, and one wishes the film itself genuinely explored that question instead of merely paying lip service to it. ![]()
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