Tuesday, December 15, 2015

83.) In the Heart of the Sea [12/15/2015 - IMAX]

There have been a few movies in which I get to watch a person die while voluntarialy doing something immensely and obviously dangerous, most notably Everest, which occasionally still haunts my waking life, and Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea is another such film in which a person flirts with death in a breath-takingly beautiful place; unlike Everest, where Rob Hall's motivations were so tragically human and understandable his death had some sort of resonance, I didn't care for any of these characters, so while everyone on the boat is wasting away from starvation with death looming overhead, I didn't have that same deep, resonant sadness (even with all the amazing cinematography, which just becomes beautiful window-dressing to an ultimately meaningless set of tragic circumstances).

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