The only difference between the two women’s experiences is a dead-ish whale. And in an effort to find herself, Nancy traces her mother’s footsteps by enjoying the same sand and the same blue water her mother once did. Once upon a time, before cancer ravaged her body, Nancy’s mom surfed at this same magical, secret Mexican beach. Nancy is taking some time away from med school to recalibrate after losing her mother to cancer. And what we see and get is Nancy’s worst vacation ever. In The Shallows, what you see is what you get. It occasionally fuels an anticipation for human meanness, but that meanness never materializes there is no plot about locals feeding white girls to sharks. While Lively’s Nancy is a self-described gringa in every clueless sense of the word, this movie never crosses into travel-horror territory. Those movies are fascinating in the way they portray Americans, so privileged and blithely unaware of the grimness that surrounds them, coupled with a warped view of the countries they visit - as untrustworthy, inhumane, chaotic, primal. Everything about the The Shallows is pretty surface-levelĪfter seeing the trailer and marketing for The Shallows, I was convinced the movie would turn out to be a bait-and-switch travel-horror flick in the same vein as The Ruins, Turistas, and even Hostel. The Shallows is just blue water and (great) white death.Īnd yet, in its own simple, battering way, the movie manages to find its fun.
There’s no finesse, no subtlety - in either the film’s bones or in Lively’s performance. There’s no primal terror, like there was in the oft-overlooked Open Water. There’s no musing on humanity or ethereal symbolism, like there was in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. The film is about a very attractive woman and a great white shark that would like to make a meal out of her. The Shallows understands this desire and never strays too far from trying to fulfill it. We’re here to see sharks eat people - men, women, children, one person in particular. Lively’s Nancy must first avoid, then defeat, this menace alone.Shark movies are not complicated. It’s also very hungry and peculiarly spiteful. The shark is first seen maintaining perfect forward-moving equilibrium inside the crest of a wave, so it’s not just an unusually large shark, but it’s also one that can defy the laws of physics. Collet-Serra’s busy visual style, which uses a lot of fast-cutting, willy-nilly variations between slow and fast motion, and illogical but vivid point-of-view shots, seems at least somewhat apt under the exhilarating circumstances.īut then, of course, a shark approximately the size of an ocean liner has to show up and spoil everything.
Nancy’s Spanish skills are insufficient for any real conversation with the two native dudes who share the surf with her, but everyone’s vibe is friendly. Lively is made to look like a very able surfer. The vistas (with Australia standing in for Mexico) are staggering, the water a heavenly blue, and Ms. The next 15 minutes of “The Shallows,” directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from a script by Anthony Jaswinski, are delightful. After using the phone one more time, to check in with her little sister and her dad for some back story, she tethers herself to her surfboard, puts on the top half of a wet suit, and hits the waves. Once she hits the sand, Nancy proves game and capable and in the moment. Lively’s character, Nancy, is not a tech addict, as such: She’s looking at pictures of her mother, now dead, who was pregnant with her when she visited the secret Mexican beach Nancy is now seeking.
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Blake Lively is introduced in this thriller riding in a rugged roadster and peering at a smartphone while a scraggly-bearded, longhaired driver navigates rough forest terrain.
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