Scriptwriter J. C. Chandor RATING 👍 ( 4 of 10) Watch not so much for depth but for artistic qualities. The Review The feel of the movie, reinforced by the score, is tragic and depressive. Here is an elderly sailor who faces the forces of nature with broken tools and inadequate supply for survival, and in a territory where human power is most limited – the ocean (as opposed to land). It is a situation set up for hopelessness, of experiencing the limits of human capacity, and of helplessness. The only time the sailor speaks was at the beginning and the end of the film. While the narration tried to encapsulate his life in philosophical terms, the lack of flashbacks along the way tended to hollow these thoughts – to be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right… The viewer cannot empathize with his past because of not being able to see it. Another weakness in this movie is the absence of thought narratives in certain moments in his struggle to
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