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Magandang pelikula!

Magandang pelikula!

Magandang pelikula!

Magandang pelikula!

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The overall story of it would have been okay if they put more focus on the characters rather than the diving. Everything happened so fast there is no room to connect to movie and feel for the characters, pretty dull. I can honestly say the only good thing about this was the sunset scene where it was nicley captured and looked easy in the eyes. The acting wasn't that bad, it just wasn't as highlighted as it should have been, with all of the fast pace script i don't think they had enough space to show what they can do. Definitely not a movie i would watch again, wish i could get my hour and thirty minutes back:)

This fiction movie I found out after watching it is actually based on the life of Audrey Mestre (1974 - 2002) a French world record-setting freediver and her husband. Since it is actually a fiction movie, it is obvious that someone took liberties and embellished this story - they either had insider information on her personal details or made up a bunch of baloney for a story as it doesn't really match the Wikipedia biography on her. This disturbs me a bit because although 20 years have passed, I have no idea what the laws are in France but I assume that someone got paid or gave permission to do this Netflix story - and I truly hope it wasn't her husband exploiting her memory for money. He was actually portrayed as her boyfriend in this movie who was a diver himself and taught her how to dive. The movie itself was kind of interesting and gave me a greater understanding of the sport itself. I have no idea why someone would want to do it although I have seen lots of Greek divers in FL get started by diving for sponges, The acting was a little bad but the likeness of the FL was very similar to the real person.

Surprised to see this rating on IMDB but for me this movie is 10/10. Totally breathtaking from the first minute - maybe because for me water is a great mystery and every time they dive in I was stressed out, waiting to see what will happen. A lot to learn from the story of the main character - Roxana and all the way she goes towards achieving her dream - to find her purpose. Entangled within the hard live she had, the hard live her love had and the mistakes they want to "fix", there is a love story so complicated that you want to see it ending in a different way. And I did not expect the ending of the movie which quite made me think of the whole story for days.

Great performance by all the actors. Such an incredible story. The cinematography is just amazing. No over the top or dramatic scenes. It gives a glimpse of how the free divers practice before championships. The film makers say that the movie is loosely based on the life of Audre Mestre,a deep diver who lost her life in a very similar circumstance. The movie has successfully portrayed how jealousy can completely mess up a person's mental state and it makes them do the worst things. I think itself totally worth a watch. I accidentally found this movie while browsing through Netflix and it was worth my time. Totally recommend watching it at least once.

Once upon a time there was a film made about Gandhi who insofar as I remember was Indian. They used a British Jewish actor to play Gandhi. I still wonder why? No Indians available? Then later on and before that they would make cowboy movies with white actors painted to look like Braves. Here in these Woke years they use actor Sofiane to play a character called Pascal which may seem a bit odd to some viewers; did they run out of Frenchmen who are not French Arabs? It seems unnecessary to me but anyway he does a great job here as the Baddie of the piece. As regards the other main protagonist her acting is okay here only during the bar scene with the secondary love interest does she giggle a tad like a brainless model; the rest of the time she is really quite adequate even very good at times. The other acting folks here are all pretty good not stellar But pretty good. The tale here is a total grim fest. Both main characters have childhoods that would make Dickens and Eugène Sue blush and they tell you about them. The activity they are engaged in is to a sane person so crazy that it beggars belief. I remember the film Le grand bleu (1988) from years ago ( Luc Besson 1988) and this was excellent (free diving is huge in France) ; here we have what it has come to now an exaggeration a crazy hyperbolic take on free diving full of technology machines and pushing the human body to a place where it can only die. Trying to produce no spoilers here but it does not end well surprisingly. Do not watch this film if you want something to cheer up this will not tick that box. Also it is intimated that something of the same nature happened in real time to a real female diver in The Dominican Republic; maybe just an homage; probably not a cut-and-paste To summarise it is very adequate film well-made the acting I would rate at 75% of what it could have been; but whichever way you cut this the storyline is strong and that is a very crucial component of any movie... PS so i went and watched Le grand bleu (1988) again after all these years and that too was not a tale of joy either .... I had forgotten the ending probably just remembered the cuddly dolphs and gorgeous curves of Rosanna .... but yes in a way "Sous Emprise" is just an amped version in the more accelerated and cruel world of 2022 .... I remembered Le grand bleu (1988) as chipper chirpier ... but noooooo it sure was not.