Mandy Moore and Claire Holt in troubled waters
Before the arrival of Under the Seine on Netflix on June 5thNetflix is already putting its subscribers in the bathtub with the addition to its catalog of 47 meters below. Released in 2017, directed by Johannes Roberts, 47 meters below ranks among the top tier shark films. The idea is simple and original: two sisters, Lisa and Kate, are on holiday in Mexico and decide to dive in a cage among white sharks. The problem is that the cable of the cage gives way and they find themselves at the bottom of the ocean, 47 meters deep. They’ll have to try to climb back up…
For 47 meters below, actresses Mandy Moore (Lisa) and Claire Holt (Kate) got busy, shooting a large number of sequences immersed in a swimming pool. Since the film only adopts their point of view, and particularly Lisa’s, the supporting cast only appears in very brief moments but is very solid, particularly with Matthew Modine as the boat captain.
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The other danger of 47 meters below
47 meters below is a perfect film about sharks, so successful that, without hiding it, it tells of another danger, well known to divers: the nitrogen narcosisor in other words “the thrill of the abyss“. In fact, by diving to several tens of meters of depth, Kate and Lisa do not have an unlimited reserve of oxygen and already have an altered sensitivity, and above all they cannot ascend directly, the body being too influenced by the pressure of the water without respecting the decompression levels, they risk killing themselves during the ascent and, by respecting these levels, they expose themselves to sharks that harass them. This neurological disorder can make them lose spatial and temporal orientation, even terror.
Cleverly, the film doesn’t limit itself to just the threat of the sharks, but makes the most of it the constraints of scuba diving to create another danger. And this will allow us to stage a surprising ending.
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An unreliable storytelling model
The explanation of the end of 47 meters below there is, and we will not reveal the mechanisms here. But we can write that Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera had the excellent idea of making the screenplay offer a “false” first ending, where we witness the first happy resolution of the drama, from Lisa’s point of view. But in reality, this, touched the thrill of the abyssShe’s not quite where she thinks she is, and the people around her aren’t where they really belong either…
Very nice on the musical theme Climb by Tomandandy, we then understand that the reality is very different, and much more terrible… A spectacular and expertly delivered ending, which perfectly sublimates the delicious anguish caused by this excellent film about sharks.
Source: Cine Serie
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