The natural paradise invaded by a film Shark – Daily News – Lisbon

A woman threatened by a shark: Dangerous Waters is a summer movie without superheroes, recovering a certain spectacle style reminiscent of the series B 60s comes tomorrow at national cinema

in other times of less accelerated lives, perhaps more naive, a good recipe for the so-called “summer movie” could involve three magic ingredients: a beach paradise, some young people in bikini and the songs of Elvis Presley … Like that. Review to adventure he starred in 1967, looking for a treasure on the seabed; . Had an original title softly moralistic about the ephemeral value of wealth, Easy Come, Easy Go, but the Portuguese translator saw fit to clarify all doubts and called it Pirates in Bikini

Times have changed – the proof is in the exciting Dangerous Waters (opens tomorrow). Because the crisis requires the most perverse forms of austerity, we “only” a young woman in bikini, Nancy, in fact committed to do a job, not trivially materialistic, but affective redemption: go surfing on the same beach (paradise, believe me) where the mother knew she was born – everything happens in a corner forgotten in Mexico, but as the cinema is an art shared many mistakes, the film was shot in Australia. No problem. Who assumes, then, the role of Elvis

Say singing Love Me Tender will not be your specialty: you can not ask either a lone shark – when you look up , his impassioned fascination with legs Nancy is purely degustativo without metaphor.

in a season marked by dramatic emptying of superhero films, performed by teams of “special effects” without any taste for cinema, knows well find a movie like Dangerous Waters . There is in it an old taste of series B, capable of transforming an improbability at the edge of far-fetched in a vibrant narrative exercise (we remember the films produced by Roger Corman that over the 60, confided in some unknown young as Francis Ford Coppola . or Martin Scorsese)

the oddity of the situation is somehow recognized in the original title, the shallows (literally: shoals, shallow water). A shark in the context of those is, before any explanation about ecological, effective idea argument. That is to say: the old lesson from Steven Spielberg in Jaws (1975), remains valid. And the more as the film refuses to ease the false acceleration of many contemporary products that confuse the “speed” of the assembly with the creation of emotion.

The human factor

Especially in the first part exhibition of drama power lines, Dangerous Waters is presented as a smartly contemplative film in which the tension born of methodical observation of space, that is, the strangeness of the images and also the involvement of sounds. Vogamos, after all, on (and under) the waves of the most primitive and disturbing parable. Mother Nature can be both welcoming as hog – the human factor is the miracle that lives inside this contradiction

produced by Columbia a major Hollywood and directed by Spaniard Jaume Collet-Serra (who became known in 2005 with the horror film House of Wax ) Dangerous Waters illustrates a curious strategic retreat movement of some major studios. Realizing that the great promotional machines will always be the exception, not the rule, it is (re) valuing the potential – creative and commercial – of small budget objects (the cost of 17 million dollars is almost anecdotal in a context the superhero sagas tend to exceed 200 million, and billed 36 million in the first 11 days in the USA).

Ironically, or maybe not, it may also be the film able to allow Blake Lively overcome their status as “quasi-star” in the current panorama of Hollywood (we can find it again in the magnificent Cafe Society , Woody Allen, with scheduled premiere on 20 October). it is the second time she risks “carry” the dramatic energy of an entire movie, after The Age of Adaline (2015), Lee Toland Krieger, a melodrama of fantastic components that perhaps deserved more than the almost general indifference with which it was received.

Blake Lively began to distinguish himself within some unusual global consistency casts in films like the Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), Rebecca Miller, The City (2010), Ben Affleck, and Wild (2012), Oliver Stone. In between, there was a mediocre superhero movie, Green Lantern (2011), opposite Ryan Reynolds, whom he married a year later.

Now in confrontation with a shark bit given the dramatic nuances, shows a sophisticated ability to sustain a character with no chance of dialogue with anyone else, but a friendly wounded seagull reminds us how nature can range from a radical violence and the most basic vulnerability . He missed an Elvis song on the soundtrack, but you can not have everything.