2012 · drama · survival · true-story
The Deep
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur1h 35m2012
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
Our read: The Deep (2012) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · survival · true-story entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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