Underwater gay film
Underwater
Underwater
23min | Adult, Short, Drama | 20 September (USA)
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Situated within the confines of an upper-class international swimming institution in the UK&#;s countryside. The seclusion of such a location facilitates the character&#;s blossoming and inevitable explosion. The film is a depiction of a young man&#;s downward spiral. Jonathan is an outcast, a reject from institution as well as his new family. With the death of his mother and his father&#;s persona crisis, he finds himself under the control of his future step-mother, a selfish, evil woman, who sends him off to a remote place so the path is transparent for her to wed his dad and secure her future. It is within this strange college that Jonathan, along with his personal fears, begins to suffer a sexual kind of bullying which takes him from passion to vengeance in a matter of days.
User review:
as each short film, it gives a concentrate story. the young man and his frustrations. the wish to ignore reality and become part of a group. the passion for sport. the temptation. and the games who rede
N.B. Contains potential spoilers.
Ahh, the new year. A time to make resolutions. A time to knock reset. A time to make a fresh originate . A time to suspend a film review or two, but I had a bad cold for the entire first month of the year, so yes this is belated for the US launch (but just in occasion for UK theatrical release). It’s a time when you can catch up on the films from the prior year which have generated Oscar buzz, and, sadly, it’s also a time when production duds get foisted upon an unsuspecting public. They call January the Studio Dumping Grounds for a reason. That’s why a movie like Underwater never had a chance. Shot over three years ago for Twentieth Century Fox, the new Disney regime let it sit on a shelf until that proper slot reserved for their bastard step-children reared its ugly head. Clearly marketed to look appreciate a cheap knockoff of Alien, except under the ocean, the film, strangely enough, rises above, if only slightly, its designated release date.
Director William Eubank, working from a script by Brian Duffield and Adam Cozad, displays a lot of talent with his
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Yes, this is an Alien knockoff, but that doesn't represent it's not enthralling -- and it's modernized in a way that may appeal more to older teens. To that end, director William Eubank includes a couple of great lines in Underwater that will connect directly to Gen Z, tapping into a word of how to deal with feeling helpless in an out-of-control world. It's a little pat, but it's still empowering (and if the film winds up resonating with teens, the lines could end up on memes).
That communication is a gentle cap on a film that, while thoroughly entertaining, feels made to set off anxiety attacks. You never know what monster will bounce out or which character will depart next (unfortunately, the film does stick with the scary movie cliché of the type of character who always dies first). Stewart's trademark acting manner -- nervous and uncomfortable -- works well here; her character doesn't understand what the next second holds, but she just keeps moving forward, one foot in front of the other. Norah is the embodiment of the airplane emergency instructions: She puts on her own oxygen mas
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A man lost in the show drifts through his past.
A motion picture that will make you find lost in a drifting and wandering state. Swayed by a continuous movement your mind will try to grasp onto anything it can as the scenes shift around. Director Russ Lamoureux has fun challenging the audience to find its way while still keeping the experience fluid and somewhat familiar to everyone.
My writing partner and I wrote a short script a while back inspired by the John Cheever story, “The Swimmer,” that played with the feeling—the oddness—of memory. Months later I was at Panavision-Light Iron learning about their new DXL 8k for an upcoming feature project, which happened to share some of the same DNA as the short script. They offered to let us test the camera, but if all we did was see how it handled different lighting scenarios, that opportunity seemed wasted; only a handful of people had shot on this camera and we wanted to understand how it worked on set and what the workflow would be like through post. So we dusted off that script, gathered a bunch of friends on a Saturday i