2018 · drama · adventure
The Mercy
Directed by James Marsh1h 42m2018
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
Our read: The Mercy (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / adventure, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
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