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Sea of Darkness
The story of surfing pioneers Martin Daly's and Dave Burnett's days in Bali during the 1970s.
| Release : | 2013 |
| Rating : | 7 |
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| Crew : | Director, |
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| Genre : | Documentary |
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Excellent but underrated film
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
An interesting hybrid of surf movie - the waves that Kahuna dreamt about - a surfers El Dorado with documentary realism blended with the fictions of and nightmare scenarios of exotic locations and the narcotic world of the glorious search for the ultimate wave, evolving into the criminal milieu of smuggling and bounties of cash, terminating in broken dreams and disaster, but redeemed by the specter of majestic waves, which unify all the disparate themes. Oblowitz, certainly warms to his subject, leading the viewer on a descent into the under-life and beyond, telling his tale in an entertaining and at the same time morally instructive manner - the viewer feels that the experience is both worthwhile and stimulating - especially with this well constructed documentary's tale of human weakness and it's consequences.
