2021 · documentary · sport
The Rescue
Directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi1h 47m2021
The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.
Our read: The Rescue (2021) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded documentary · sport entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, extreme documentary / sport, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- extreme
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
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