Beautiful film. The movie is amazing! The general verdict is to watch to the end! This is one of those movies that changes the way we look at life.
What do you know about the ocean? And these women know everything about him!
In the film 'She is Ocean' 9 stories of women who challenged the ocean are told. Would it look like a female movie? Nope! This immersive movie. Even if you are not a fan of documentary films, you will be surprised by the angles from which this story is shot. Sometimes it is impossible to understand the place of the operator in this mystery. Each plan is not only masterfully shot, but also on the edge, and sometimes beyond the limits of possibility. The authors of the film invite you to see the elements through the eyes of the heroines, fully identify with them and merge with them in love for the Ocean. Documentary in this picture is only the voice of the Ocean. Everything else – the action, the plot, the main conflict of man and the Ocean – is part of a fantastic world in which the filmmakers feel like sharks in the Ocean. Before our eyes, they created a new genre – documentary fiction. Because the scenes included in the film are at least magical, and at most impossible.
We have all seen the documentary projects 'Birds' and 'Penguins at the End of the World'. These are beautiful movies, but everything that happened there is perceived through the prism of detachment. It's beautiful, but it happens somewhere far away, not with us, not in this life. The feature of the film ' She is the ocean' is an amazing sense of belonging: everything on the screen is happening to us here and now. From the moment of watching the film, a deep awareness of the power of the Ocean becomes a personal experience.
What else? You think you're going to merge with the ocean, and you're going to swing around for 99 minutes, forgetting your own name? Nope! This is another catch of the movie.
The main characters of the film are women, and they are more than real. Their problems in life are recognizable. Disease, misfortune, strength, hope and love. The film proves that the female soul is international. These women are tangible and real. None of them look like an ocean fairy or a fairy tale Mermaid. At the same time, they resolve issues of self-sufficiency in a dispute with the Ocean. But this is not a question of who is cooler – the woman or the Ocean, but of the female soul, which in a moment of despair takes power from the Ocean.
The result was a film about the female soul, where the stories of each heroine sparkled with the faces of one diamond. This diamond is the ocean.
The ocean didn’t dull a woman’s real pain, it made it even more tangible. In the battle of women and the ocean somehow naturally look broken knees, bruises and stoned bodies. This pain can be felt even through the screen. There is nothing beautiful or tempting about physical pain. It reflects only the truth of life - what price a woman must pay to reach the end, fighting trials. In the film Ocean all the internal problems of women made external. Turned women inside out, showed what their soul looks like. And the real pain of women made the film shrill and real.
Special thanks for editing and selection of music. Music is involved in what is happening, as if it grows out of the hum of the ocean in every single moment. The installation is absolutely impossible to predict. He then lets you admire the ocean in real time, and the viewer does not even notice the editing joints, then suddenly stuns the clip editing, maximally pulling the viewer into what is happening.
Generally for the effect ' Door to Narnia' or rather ' Window to the ocean' is responsible for the editing director. The film is arranged in such a way that you do everything yourself: you swim with sharks, dive to reefs, jump from a sheer cliff, try to control the wave. I mean, you just thought you wanted to see something closer or farther away, and the editing director had already thought it over for you and offered a better point of view. As a result, the camera is not visible at all. At some point, you catch yourself thinking that there are no barriers between the audience in the hall and the Ocean in the form of a screen at all.
The alternation of relaxation and dynamic scenes corresponds to the biological rhythm of a person. There is time to admire the ocean, and there is time to experience the dynamics, risk, a sense of delight before the greatness of the elements.
The film ' She is the Ocean' is an undeniable bright event in the world of documentary film. This cannot be repeated, it can only be enjoyed.
A movie after which you will want to review your life. Get rid of old skin and buy the first ticket to the ocean.