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I liked the movie, but have some complaints (imagine that, me complaining?)
Why did the camera have to bob in the water, along with the stranded couple?He was such a jerk, who cared when he died?
If both die, how could anyone have written the plot and ensuing dialogue? How would they know his leg got bitten off first?
And the jelly fish?
And how they reacted, her taking the plunge, and all.
And no man would have NOT noticed a hottie like her missing from the boat on the way back.
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...saw it on DVD last night. What a waste of time.
I agree, how would they have known all the extra details if they both died at the end. Could it have been from the camera found in the shark gut?I thought the film was bad. I didn’t like many things about it including the documentary style graininess of the picture. I can not for the life of me understand the great reviews, and the comparison to Jaws, in regards to how it would scare people out of the water.
It sucked, and left me feeling I wanted a refund for the rental.
the bobbing in the water was wrong, wrong wrong! If this was a movie about 3 people in the water, that would have made sense. But since there were only supposed to be 2 in the water, why film it from an angle that makes us feel in the water with them? Made no sense.Also, if it is true that it happens a lot; then this story could just as easily have been about any of the other couples, since nothing in this movie could actaully be proven as having happened. The dialog was complete fiction because they both died!!!!
It's the "jaws" version of the Blair Witch Project, giving the viewer that home video look.In the last scene the camera is fished out of the belly of a shark, so we figured that maybe it accidentally recorded the sharks swimming around them as they floated, unaware.
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Well, I would have to assume the bobbing camera was for two reasons:
1. to put you in the scene
2. the cameraman was in the water too!All that aside, you do know this was more or less a true story?
Happened in Australia and the boat captain was prosecuted. I believe he was acquited.
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> > If both die, how could anyone have written the plot and ensuing dialogue? < <I don't understand your objection. At no point was Open Water being told in flashback. Most fiction is written from the point of view of an omnipotent observer.
> > And how they reacted, her taking the plunge < <
That seemed to me to be a horrible but believable decision. Given that rescue was unlikely and since the sharks probably wouldn't have left her alone long enough to die a slow agonizing death from dehydration, her options were either to be ripped apart by sharks which would be unimaginably painful or a relatively easy death by drowning. For a real world analogy consider the unfortunates in the World Trade Center who were above the level of the airplane crashes. Many decided to leap to their deaths rather than wait for the fire to kill them.
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if indeed it ended that way. It should therefore be classified as fiction, and not based on a true story. Unless all that is "based on the true story" is people being left behind.
I think most people interpret "based on a true story" to mean that the story has some basis in real events but isn't a factually correct documentary. For more on the real event that inspired the movie see the link below.
from "forensic" clues. Notice the actors resemble, slightly , the real couple. Slightly.
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