A large ship, a brutal frost, and the uncertain fate of Oloukine generate some needed narrative tension. But when "Long Way North" does get on the water and then into the deadly ice, there are grand moments of adventure. Though Sacha is how we get into the story, and it is intriguing to see her personal journey, the odyssey of the crew proves most narratively gripping, which starts after a slow 30 minutes into an 80-minute movie. She's initially treated as a complete outsider, even though she knows the possible course to the ship, but is welcomed when she can finally display her skills. Armed with new perspective, Sacha is eventually able to convince a crew of men, including the tough captain Lund (voiced by Loïc Houdré) that they should help her seek the Davai, convincing them with the possibility of reward money. But as strangers either take advantage or support her in different ways, the story becomes grounded in acts or failures of compassion that we experience day-by-day. Her entitled perspective of somehow easily finding passage after running away is challenged by the selfishness of others. With everyone telling her to drop the idea and hinting that she should focus more on her relationship status, she leaves in the middle of the night with a pair of valuable earrings, which she hopes to use as payment to get on a ship towards the North Pole. At a ball hosted by her father in honor of the prince, she uses the pairing with the slimy piece of royalty to see if he’d be interested in funding a rescue mission, but her agency so insults him that he storms out, embarrassing her father in the process. Sacha seeks help from the men of power near her, initially attempting to navigate through what they want from her.
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