Sanctum (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sanctum |
| Original title | Sanctum |
| Country of production | United States Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alister Grierson |
| script |
John Garvin Andrew Wight |
| production | Andrew Wight |
| music | David Hirschfelder |
| camera | Jules O'Loughlin |
| cut | Mark Warner |
| occupation | |
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Sanctum is a 3-D action thriller directed by Alister Grierson and executive producer James Cameron that released in United States on February 4, 2011. The premiere in German-speaking cinemas was on April 21, 2011.
action
17-year-old Josh McGuire is leaving the Esa'ala (underwater) cave in Papua New Guinea , where his father Frank is currently leading a research project. The goal of his trip is to pick up Carl - who finances the expedition - and his girlfriend Victoria. He does not fulfill the task of transporting emergency diving cylinders to the designated place in the cave.
Once at the base, Josh, Carl and Victoria make their way to the "head base", the current end point of the research on a siphon . Here the team has worked several weeks to prepare a dive that is now taking place. Frank and Judes leave their reserve bottles behind to force their way through a bottleneck. As it turns out, this leads into another, huge hall. A water surface can already be seen during the dive, a breakthrough in previous research.
Frank and Judes turn around and make their way back to the base. Here, Frank noticed a leak at Judes rebreather (rebreather), which enlarges and eventually leads to its total failure. In the absence of the emergency tanks, both try to breathe alternately from Frank's diving device, which is especially difficult due to the full face masks. Judes panics and refuses to return it to Frank. After a scuffle in which Frank regains control of the diving equipment, Frank pushes Judes away. This drowns before his eyes. The scenario is followed by the base team through the camera on an underwater robot .
Josh accuses his father of killing Judes. The rest of the team defend Frank by pointing out the risks of alternating breathing and consider it impossible that Judes could have been saved. On the other hand, Frank blames Josh for not having transported the emergency diving cylinders as agreed. This should have been done by Judes instead, who was exhausted by it.
During the discussion it turns out that the communication link to the surface no longer works. Rain has been forecast for days that would completely flood the cave and endanger the life of the team. A timely warning of the water masses is essential, but no longer guaranteed. Some of the team members - including Josh and Luko - head to the surface to check the weather there. But the storm has long since set in and the storm has developed into a cyclone within a few hours . Waterfalls in the upper part of the cave are already swelling dangerously. Josh and Luko abort their ascent to the surface to return to the rest of the team and warn them. All people still remaining in the cave begin to retreat. This proves to be difficult because of the masses of water that are already swelling towards them. Josh and Luko come to their aid. When they want to pull Victoria up into a narrow spot with a rope, a rock loosens. This blocks the exit. Luko, who tries to prevent this, is injured so badly that it is not possible for him to survive. Frank euthanized him , he drowned him.
Since the way up is closed, the only way out is to dive through the newly discovered cave passage. The group searches the base for useful equipment and leaves. The bottleneck is successfully passed by everyone, but the first problems are not long in coming. George, with a bad health, is struggling with diving disease . His condition is noticeably deteriorating. In order not to hinder the group, he finally chooses suicide. When trying to cross a vortex and transport the rebreather devices over with a material cable car , Victoria's hair gets caught in her abseil device . Tormented by pain, she tries in a panic to cut herself free. She cuts the rope, falls and dies. With her the group loses all rebreather devices except for one. Frank wants to use this to dive through another water passage that blocks the way. After the scouting dive, he wants to return to get Josh and Carl - the only survivors so far - but Carl escapes wordlessly with the device. Frank and Josh stay behind.
Shortly thereafter, however, Josh discovers bat droppings on the walls. He concludes that there must be a direct route to the surface since bats cannot swim. The search begins while the energy supply for her helmet and flashlights slowly collapses. In the faint glow of the last light supply - Frank's watch - they discover daylight. The supposed salvation is not, however. You find yourself in a cave, through the ceiling of which a tank has broken. The hole is out of reach for them. But with the tank they can find material to make torches. You set out to find another way out. They come across the disturbed Carl, who is crouching in the dark next to the corpse of his girlfriend, which has been washed up by the underground river. Frank rejects him because of his betrayal and takes the rebreather. With the device and it contains light sticks Josh and Frank want to find into the sea by buddy breathing a way out of the cave. However, the desperate Carl attacks her and pierces Frank's back with a stalagmite . Carl plunges into the water without diving equipment . Frank, unable to dive any further, begs his son to drown him. Josh fulfills Frank's wish with agony of conscience. With a small gas bottle and a glow stick, Josh tries to submerge the siphon that appears as a last resort to freedom. On the way he comes across Carl's body. The breathing gas supply is running low, the light stick goes out. But Josh doesn't give up, following his father's instructions. He breathes from air bubbles that have collected on the ceiling and finally finds his way into the daylight with the help of a present from Frank - a wild boar's tooth converted into a flashlight, which he didn't want to throw away long before in a fit of anger against Frank. He breaks the surface and swims to a coast where a woman with two children is looking after him.
production
The film was inspired by a life-threatening experience of co-screenwriter Andrew Wight, when he led a diving expedition miles deep in an underwater cave system. The cave entrance was destroyed by a storm and he had to find another way out.
The film was shot on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, and uses 3D techniques from the film Avatar , which James Cameron also directed.
The stunt diver Agnes Milowka , who appears twice as a double in the film, drowned in one of the caves after filming was completed on February 27, 2011.
The word Sanctum is in English for " sanctuary ", " private rooms " or the " inner sphere ". In Latin it stands for " temple ". The film title is obviously designed to be ambiguous.
criticism
“The claustrophobic narrowness is particularly threatening to the viewer due to the 3D technology. The story itself, however, which follows the ten little negro principle, offers little new. And the tiring orchestral score, which is as tough as paste over the pictures, doesn't exactly contribute to edification. Too bad. Cameron isn't in everywhere Cameron is on it. Conclusion: That's how it is with 3D: Even the successful use of technology does not raise this average thriller above average "
“Visually impressive underwater thriller in which adventurous expedition members fight for bare survival in a gigantic, storm-flooded cave network. [...] The beauty of the underwater shots is hard to beat and overshadows all the other elements of the film, including the somewhat flat-sounding dialogues, but the excellently evoked claustrophic atmosphere distracts from some of the unevenness. Anyone who appreciates immersion in mysterious natural worlds and hard (albeit sparse) surges of action will be happy to embark on this hell trip into the cave. "
“Maybe Mr. Cameron should have looked a little closer here before providing his name to promote the film. [...] Sanctum is bursting with logic / connection errors - which the majority of the viewers will probably not even notice as non-divers, so don't think about them. However, the divers among the spectators will have a lot of fun finding the discrepancies. [...] Without the name Cameron, the film would probably quickly disappear into the darkness of a cave-like film archive flooded with mediocre titles. "
Web links
- Sanctum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Sanctum . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 905 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Sanctum . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ heraldsun.com Herald Sun report on the death of the diver
- ↑ Sanctum. LEO GmbH , accessed on May 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Sanctum. Pons-Verlag , accessed on May 15, 2019 .
- ^ Cinema
- ↑ kino.de
- ^ MovieMaze