just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water
Got my earrings, but not my hair dryer diffuser thingie.And then, I made a very big mistake. Right before bed, I decided to watch the last half hour of Open Water. The beginning had been kind of slow & boring, so I figured I'd just zip thru the end & be done with it.
Uh-huh.
And I should warn you that there will be SPOILERS in here, so if you haven't seen the movie & don't want to know anything until you do, stop reading now.
Now, I like scary movies--usually. Of course, I try not to watch them at night, because if I do, I tend to have nightmares afterwards. But I never expected this movie to get all that frightening. I was even reading at the same time, only watching with half an eye (you know what I mean :-p) so that if it got too intense, I still wouldn't be all that scared.
Oh, right! When I saw all those sharks swimming around in a big cluster, I just about wet myself. I have this thing about sharks...I love them; I think they're magnificent creatures & should never be killed, even if they bite someone. But I also have a VERY healthy respect for them. Meaning that if you go into the ocean, you're essentially walking right into a shark's kitchen, & if you get bitten or eaten, it's your own damn fault. You knew the risk. It's not like they come on land to get to us. (Unless we're talking about that "Land Shark" on SNL. :-)) So even tho I like the ocean & will dip my toes in occasionally, you will not catch me swimming out to sea or deep sea diving or doing anything else that equates with knocking on a shark's front door & asking, "What's for dinner?"
So then, thanks to seeing that many sharks all swimming around together & knowning that bought people bought it in the end, would you be surprised to hear that I didn't sleep very well? Snort. I didn't have any full-blown nightmares where I was lost at sea or getting attacked by Great Whites, but I kept seeing shark faces & remembering the movie. That was enough to make me toss & turn a bit.
And then today, I was talking with a friend about the film, & she told me that there's a question as to whether things really happened the way the movie depicted. I knew it was based on real events, but I don't remember hearing the controversy of whether the people had died or faked their own deaths. That's very interesting.
I did have two problems with the film, tho... Well, three, if you count that I don't know how they know what happened out there if there were no survivors, but...
#1--I don't know about you, but if I'd been in that situation, I'd have tried to swim for one of those boats at the very beginning. I don't care how far away they were, at least by swimming, I'd have had the chance of getting close enough for them to notice me. I would not have just stayed where I was, bobbing up & down, waiting for Jaws & his cronies to eat me.
#2--I can't believe that the guy got bitten by a shark, was bleeding all over the place, then had time to bleed to death before the sharks came back & finished him off. And her, too. I mean, once there was blood in the water & the sharks knew that what they'd been bumping into was food, they'd have gone back & had themselves a little two-course meal.
Am I right? Or am I the only one who thinks this? Well, no, I'm not, because my friend agrees with me. :-) But did anyone else notice these tiny details & wonder about them?
I don't know about you, but I'm going back to my favorite shark attack movie of all time: Deep Blue Sea. Those sharks may be genetically altered, but they're still not as scary as the ones in Open Water. Because the ones in Open Water were real. Yikes.
