posterchild
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Open Water leaves us adrift
I've always been a big fan of the man vs. nature theme, especially the survival-type movies.
A necessary ingredient to good story-telling as I recall from my sophomore year at high school is the resolution to a conflict.
In open water, we have the conflict. A vacationing couple in Jamaica get left behind on a scuba dive by their tour operator who makes an errant head count before pulling up anchor and returning to port.
We can look back 10 years or more to a similar movie, "Alive", about a plane crash in the Andes mountains. The victims do survive, after resorting to cannibalism. Heck, even the castaways survived "Gilligan's Isand"!
The problem with "Open Water" is the absence of a resolution to the predicament. The man dies from a shark wound and his spouse drowns herself to avoid the same fate. Quite a bummer. Once we get past the initial horror of the tragic mistake, there is nothing left to sustain the story.
Perhaps the producers tried to adhere too closely to the news accounts that the story was based on. They probably should have exercised some artistic license.
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8/21/2004, 10:32 am
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