Open water

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Movie
German title Open water
Original title Open Water - Who will save you?
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Chris Kentis
script Chris Kentis
production Laura Lau
music Nathan Barr ,
Graeme Revell
camera Chris Kentis,
Laura Lau
cut Chris Kentis
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Successor  →
Open Water 2

Open Water is a Chris Kentis thriller about a couple who are forgotten during a scuba diving excursion on the open sea. The plot is roughly based on the fate of the US couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were forgotten by their dive boat on January 25, 1998 during a dive on the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland , Australia and never found again.

action

Daniel Kintner and Susan Watkins spend their first vacation together in the Caribbean as a young couple. There the two go on a diving excursion on a boat, during which the couple is forgotten due to a mistake by the captain - two other participants are counted twice. While the boat with the rest of the diving group drives back to the harbor without them, Susan and Daniel still believe in an unfortunate misunderstanding that will soon work out for the better. When they realize after a few hours that they are on their own, a dispute begins about who is to blame for this predicament. Old animosities and long repressed events between the two reappear. But then it gets dark and the belief in an imminent rescue gives way to panic and hopelessness, besides cold and thirst there are also sharks lurking in the depths of the water.

During the Odyssey, Daniel is injured by sharks and succumbs to his injuries. Susan first holds his dead body, then lets him float on the water, whereupon he is pulled under the water and eaten by the sharks. Meanwhile, the absence of Susan and Daniel is noticed. A helicopter approaches, rescue ships leave the harbor, but the situation becomes hopeless: Susan already sees numerous sharks swimming around her. She gets rid of her equipment and lets herself slide under the surface of the water.

In the last scene a killed shark is dismantled. The couple's waterproof camera can be found in his stomach .

Reviews

  • Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times on Aug. 6, 2004 that the thriller was "expertly made" and realistic.
  • Desson Thomson wrote in the Washington Post on August 6, 2004 that the US $ 30,000 independent film was realistic. The recordings were made in the waters of the Caribbean, where numerous sharks lived. However, the director fails to generate audience affection for Susan and Daniel. Some of the dialogues seem stereotyped, the relationship seems banal. The representations are comparable to the bad representations in the Blair Witch Project .
  • The lexicon of international film writes that the film fails because of “poor character drawings, flat dramaturgy and low-tension narration”.

Awards

Blanchard Ryan won the Saturn Award in 2005 , and the film was nominated for the same award for Best Horror Film.

background

  • The film Open Water 2 (in the original: Open Water 2: Adrift ), which was released in German cinemas in 2006, is not related to this film in terms of content and had a script that was written before this film was released; the distributors only wanted to build on the success of Open Water for advertising reasons . Another sequel followed in 2017 with Open Water 3 - Cage Dive , which, however, does not follow on from its predecessor.
  • The production costs are given in the IMDb at around 130,000 US dollars , in the criticism by Desson Thomson in the Washington Post at around 30,000 US dollars. The film grossed approximately $ 55 million.
  • The protagonists' last names, Watkins and Kintner, are reminiscent of Peter Benchley's novel Jaws . There two victims of the shark have the same surname.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Kevin Thomas (accessed June 15, 2008).
  2. ^ Critique by Desson Thomson (accessed June 15, 2008).
  3. ↑ Open Water. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 3, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Business Data for Open Water
  5. ↑ Open Water Statistics on Boxofficemojo.com

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