MOVIE INFO
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.
In Theaters: Feb 4, 2011 Wide
Distributor:Universal Pictures
Directed By: Alister Grierson
Written By: Andrew Wight, John Garvin
CAST
Synopsis
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth called Esa-ala.
When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea.
At the heart of the exploration team is master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh), one of the world’s best cave divers. He and his crew continue to push into the cave system even as their American financier, Carl Huxley (Ioan Gruffudd), a part-time adventurer in his own right, warns that funding is nearing an end, so if they are going to find the way through to the ocean, they must do so soon.
Just as Carl, his girlfriend, and Frank’s 17-year old estranged son arrive, a storm hits the island and a flash flood cuts the group off from the surface.
All of them were trapped in the cave and, they try to find their way out. Unfortunately, a bunch of them died and the rest have to continue the journey by depending on their fate.
The story move to the shocking moment where Carl tries to killed this father and son in order to survive. The father was seriously injured after the battle and has to be killed.
At the end of the story, the boy manages to find the way out of the cave and being saved by the villagers due to his father’s spirit that he brings together.
Unseen love
Frank McGuire and his 17 years old son can’t be put under one roof due to the ego that exist within each of them. But everything was change after all of them were trapped in the caves and they only got each other.
Through the discovery of their way out from the cave, this father and son facing a lot of obstacle that slowly digging out the love between them that have faded.
The scenes where Josh was forced by his own father to kill him due to his bad condition as he can’t proceed the journey, was the climax of the story as it displays the biggest dilemma that was faced by Josh.
Being selfish is necessary
When it comes to the desperate moment or difficulty, the selfishness in ourselves will exist and appear as all we think is only to survive and protect ourselves from danger. In this movie, they must forced themselves to be selfish and must put aside all the sympathy in order to staying alive. We can see that all the group members that was dying have to be killed and left, so that, they will not be a burden for the rest to continue the journey.
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