Below (film)

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Movie
German title Below
reference title: Below - Nobody can hear you screaming down there
Original title Below
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 10
Rod
Director David Twohy
script Lucas Sussman ,
Darren Aronofsky ,
David Twohy
production Eric Watson ,
Darren Aronofsky,
Sue Baden-Powell
music Graeme Revell
camera Ian Wilson
cut Martin Hunter
occupation

Below (reference Title: Below - As heard you down, no one screaming ) is an American movie from the year 2002 , created and directed by David Twohy . Below can be classified between thriller , horror and mystery films. It was written by Lucas Sussman , Darren Aronofsky and David Twohy. The main roles were occupied by the actors Bruce Greenwood , Olivia Williams , Matthew Davis and Holt McCallany .

The exterior scenes of the film were near the Lake Michigan turned to the USS Silversides , a submarine of the Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy in the Second World War to use. The remaining scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios .

action

The USS Tiger Shark is a submarine that was on patrol in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II in 1943 . The submarine is ordered to retrieve some castaways who were discovered by a British reconnaissance plane. The Tiger Shark takes three survivors of a hospital ship that was sunk by a torpedo a few days earlier : the British nurse Claire and two sailors, one of whom was wounded. Then the Tiger Shark has to flee a German warship from which it has apparently been located. The submarine has several encounters with the German ship and is damaged by the use of depth charges.

The commander of the Tiger Shark, Lieutenant Brice, discovers that the wounded seaman is a German. Brice shoots him because he fears that he could betray the Tiger Shark to the German ship. Meanwhile, mysterious things are happening on the boat, all of which seem to have to do with the recent death of the previous commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Winters. Winters was killed after the Tiger Shark shot at and sunk a German ship. Winters then had the boat surfaced and gone on deck with the three highest-ranking officers to see whether the ship had sunk and whether there were any survivors. According to Lieutenant Brice, Winters was trying to fish the ship's wreckage out of the sea as a souvenir when he hit his head against the side of the boat and died. After that, his body sank into the sea before it could be recovered.

Meanwhile, more and more mysterious things are happening on the boat. Strange voices can be heard and a gramophone plays music independently several times. Claire, the captured seaman Kingsley, and the young officer Odell suspect that more is going on on the boat than just some technical problems. They also begin to question Brice's version of Winters' death.

During repair work in the diving cells of the submarine, Coors is killed when a ghostly apparition appears. A little later, the boat mysteriously changes course and heads back to the scene of the events in which Winters was killed. The boat's steering gear is defective; the boat can no longer be steered. When trying to repair the steering gear, the hydrogen escaping from the defective batteries is accidentally ignited by the filament of a lamp and almost the entire crew dies. When some of the survivors, Loomis among them, examine the site of the accident, the ghostly apparition reappears. Loomis then goes nuts and is killed when he leaves the boat underwater through a hatch. It gradually emerges that the three officers Brice, Loomis and Coors were responsible for Winters' death. The sunk German ship was actually an almost identical British ship, so that the Tiger Shark mistakenly identified it as an enemy and sank it. It was Claire and Kingsley's hospital ship. The three officers who had made the mistake, unwilling to take the guilt, killed Winters, who was trying to rescue survivors from the sea. So they made up their own story of his death.

Ultimately, Brice threatens the boat's few survivors as he still wants to cover up what was really going on. After the boat reappears at the point where the tragic error and the murder of Winters took place, Claire manages to call an English ship with a lamp for help. When Brice sees the ship and fears his arrest, he shoots himself in the head and dies. The survivors are rescued from the ship and the Tiger Shark sinks. The spirit of Winters was thus able to successfully take revenge; now he can go down with his ship and rest in peace.

criticism

"You have seen almost all the scenes and suspense tricks somewhere, but the result is still original and exciting to the end, like a good remix of familiar songs."

- Cinema

"Exciting psychological thriller in an unusual setting that tells a story of guilt and atonement as effectively as it is stylish."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Below . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2003 (PDF; accessed on February 4, 2018).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Below . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Below. Cinema Online, accessed December 9, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Below. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used