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Thinking of going scuba diving in Jamaica? Or, anywhere? Then you must go see Open Water."Chris Kentis's minimum opus is ridculously cheap and thoroughly unnerving... Shot using digital video, scorning such niceties as shark cages..." -- Boston Globe
I hadn't jumped out of my seat since Aliens (I think).
You've heard of a hand-held camera, but ever hear of a wave-held camera? You're in the drink with our two protagonists who were abandoned by their boat. As they pass through the stages (Denial, Anger etc.) you are *with them*, and there is even some humor found in their plight.
The film was profoundly moving, and two days later I still feel it.
That's all I'll say. Oh, the digital was not particularly objectionable.
A must-see.
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I caught this today. Every bit as scary as you said.I thought it was clever to have them named Kintner, the name of the the boy who was Jaws' second victim in that film.
Which leads me to point out one of the many continuity errors in Jaws: Chrissie, the first victim is killed on July 1 (we see Brody typing that date) and Alex kintner was killed on June 30 (we see that date on the mother's reward poster).
But I certainly missed the K. reference!
Others include the winter-bare trees outside during the impromptu town meeeting (this in late June?) and a miraculous switch in the color of Brody's shorts while they are sitting on the beach.
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I'm with you. I haven't jumped like that since Alien. Open Water also conveyed the divers' isolation and despair as palpably as Das Boot conveyed suffocating claustrophobia. The ending caught me by surprise, too, did not see that coming. Good flick.
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I plan to see this this week. I have heard that it does for scuba diving what "Psycho" did for showers and what "Jaws" did for ocean swimming.
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