The great detective’s adventure, Tintin

 

One day in class, my lecturer put on a movie of The Adventures of Tintin. At first, I thought the movie was going to be boring as I saw the movie’s cover kind of… dull. However, as the movie starts, it was quite surprising, as the 3D animation that was nicely done, which every character looked real. The way they interact, talk in  the movie seems like they were actually real people, rather than 3Ds. The movie is about TinTIn, a reporter who bought a model ship for a pound off from the market stall. After he brought the ship home, Snowy was fighting with the neighbour’s cat. The result of the fight causes the ship to broke in two which the mast of the ship came off and a scroll came out. Tintin hold on to the scroll as he tries to solve the puzzle. The next day, a man named  came to told TInTin to be careful with the ship. The man was shot and TinTin came run away. The next day, Mr.Sakharine came and made a deal with Tintin to hand over the ship, which TInTin refuses. That night, The ship was stolen and TinTin suspects it was Mr.Sakharine  and he went to go on research about the Haddock’s family. He then sneaks away to the Haddock’s Manor and came to steal back the ship. As he enters, he was captured by Sakharine, and he told TinTin that there were two ship model that are the same. And now he wants to look for the third. Mr.Sakharine kidnaps and sent him to Morocco via the old cargo ship. Inside the ship, he had hired all men to kept watch for TinTin and the captain Haddock. TinTin discovers Haddock and rescued him from his  capture. TinTin explains the situation to Haddock and the two agrees to join force to look for the third ship. Haddock later reveal at TinTin that his ancestor,  Sir Francis Haddock had a fight on board of his ship with Milanese Nightgale. Sir Francis lost the fight, but with his brilliance, he managed to escape and hid part of his treasure somewhere. He wrote the location of his treasure map inside a scroll and each scroll seperates to complete the full map. He put each inside a ship model’s mast and inherited it to his three sons.  Then the two discovers the third ship location and learnt that Sakharine is there. They approached the scene where he met the third ship which was now in possession of a Sultan. TinTin discovers that Sakharine was about to use the Soprano’s voice to break the glass that was holding the ship model. Sakaharine managed to break the glass and steal the ship model. He break the ship’s mast and discovers the third scroll. TinTin and Haddock pursues him and the two had a trouble time catching him. As the game cat and mouse between them is at the climax, Haddock managed to capture Sakharine and they get all three scrolls. TinTIn and Haddock combines the scroll which turns to a full set of Sir Francis’s location of the treasure. Surprisingly, the location of the  treasure was  at Haddock’s manor, beneath the manor. The two overjoyed, having solved the treasure location and the mystery behind the scrolls. At the end, TinTin invites him to go on for another adventure.                               

What I like about this movie is that it applies many of critical literacy skills. The scene where the two police officers, Thompsons where they tried to catch the wallet thief intrigues me. This is because they used thread at their wallets and they managed to discovers  the thief by the thread that was pulled off by the thief. The way they managed to discovers the thief is somehow brilliant, as they are not just identified the culprit, but they get to know the home of the culprit.

The other scene that amazed is where TinTin used rifle to shoot over the plane so that it would go down in the sea, but it does not fall into sea.  He then take over the plane and fly it, but the plane fuel was about to empty and he looked for other resources, and he found out that the plane was filled with alcohol. He wanted to use the alcohol as fuel, which turned to be a smart move. However, Haddock drank it all and TinTin forced him to vomit the alcohol he drank; and it proved successful as the alcohol came out as well which then fuels up the plane.  It was funny, though at the same time creative.

The last scene that really catches my eye is that when Sakharine used the Soprano to break the glass that holds the ship model. This scene is really interesting as even if it was obvious that loud voice can break glass, no one there seemed to be realized of this. This shows that people’s own consciousness can be perceived and it made me realize that even in a slightest, humans cannot notice what exactly happened if they are not alert.

 For my food for the thought, I think this movie is really interesting, and it really had some fun and creative elements to it, which makes it enjoyable to watch and suitable to watch for all ages. If you had not watch it yet, i reccomend you to watch it!