For me, this documentary about free diving is the stuff of nightmares. The hook is getting to hang around with people who are monomaniacal about one thing only – and you have to be if you are going to do the insane things these people do. The cinematography is mind-blowing but seriously … I almost couldn’t look at some of it. Very good doc, I reviewed for Ebert.
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Even your review made me cringe in terror. Well done. I might be traumatized by this one but I’m gonna check it out. Side note: Did you ever see FREE SOLO, which is kind of the flip side of this?
Yes! Free Solo! GOD.
I am drawn to these stories of people who do shit I NEVER want to do – there’s that doc 100 Foot Wave about Nazare in Portugal – and the other doc about big wave surfing – Riding Giants. I am afraid of waves like that, lol, I don’t understand these maniacs but I love to watch them do their thing!
Weirdly, I love roller coasters and if I somehow could swing it I would love to go into space.
But I never want to go underwater into a deep blue hole and try to swim underneath a deadly arch while it’s pitch black and I don’t have oxygen. The whole submersible thing was so upsetting I could barely pay attention to the news. There’s something about the vastness of the deep I find so bone-chillingly terrifying. (shivers.)