It is a horrible confluence of events that lands these girls at the bottom of the ocean, trapped in a cage with no control and very little way to make it to the surface and survive.” And I love that this film, it’s about a confluence all those things. That’s far more terrifying than sharks, which are terrifying enough. Like, that to me, ugh, is like my greatest fear. “What initially attracted both of us to this was, and what I find far more terrifying is the prospect and premise of drowning, of running out of air and it’s a race against the clock. “I think this movie sort of goes above just being a shark movie,” says Mandy Moore regarding her interest in the film. It all seems to be going perfectly – the cute boys, the new exhilarating adventure, the possible Instagram-worthy vacay pictures – that is, until the cage that’s holding the girls breaks, plunging them 47 meters down, where they become trapped at the bottom of the ocean, with only an hour’s worth of oxygen left in their tanks, and hungry predators swimming fiercely just overhead. Within a few short days, the girls are strapped up in scuba gear, sailing out to sea on a small boat with two new handsome friends, and getting ready to step foot into a rickety cage that will plummet them 20 meters down beneath the surface that they can go swimming with giant sharks. Lisa confides in her sister that the real reason why her boyfriend left her is because she wasn’t giving him the excitement he craved in life, and Kate takes it as a personal mission to prove him wrong. In the film, Lisa (Mandy Moore) takes her sister Kate ( Claire Holt) on the trip of a lifetime, down to Mexico’s beautiful blue waters and sandy white beaches, in an attempt to bounce back from a bad break up. We would get out at lunchtime, and I’m not usually a napper, and I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Even just like the littlest movements, or the seemingly simple days. “I don’t think either of us realized how physically taxing it was going to be, just all that time underwater. Because no one knew, like, what effects is eight weeks every day underwater going to have,” explains Mandy Moore. In that sense, we were kind of guinea pigs. “When we both initially read the script, it was like, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen a movie like this before that takes place primarily underwater. However, whereas the majority of killer shark movies take place mainly on the ocean’s surface, Johannes Roberts’ 47 Meters Down stands out due to the majority of the film existing almost entirely underwater. There have been a few noteworthy standouts and fun little additions over the years, such as Chris Kentis’ suspenseful Open Water, in which art mimics the real-life terrors of scuba diving couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan, and the more recent and more light-hearted Blake Lively-led The Shallows. It’s been forty years since Jaws kept people out of the water, and by now, we’ve learned what to expect from summer thrillers that take place in dangerous offshore territories.
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