The Deep Blue Sea

2012
6.2| 1h38m| R| en
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The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
iShahi It was the worst movie i've ever seen never to be seen again
Milo Milosovic I've been putting off review The Deep Blue Sea. Terrence Davies' remake of the 1950′s film based on the stage-play is a curious piece which I'm still struggling to get my head around.It's a strangely polarising beast which split me between annoyance and er enjoyance Here's the deal. On the one hand. It's a self-consciously old-fashioned portrayal of love and life in 1950′s London. Rachel Weiss plays Hester trapped in a flat and dull marriage she finds physical and emotional release in the arms of Freddie (played by Tom Hiddleston) a magnetic yet damaged WW2 pilot who is struggling to adjust to post-war life. The story is stylistic lavish with intimate set-pieces, evocative lighting and a mood of emotional frustration. What's not is as important as what is not said. There's evocations of Brief Encounter and Powell & Pressburger. An impressive meditation on love in all its forms and the damage it can cause.On the other hand. It's an out-dated throw-back from a director who is stuck in time with a Britain that never really existed. Pampered hoity-toity, plummy-types (Hester? Freddie? Oh, 'k off!) moping and whining while the salt of the earth "Cor Blimey" types are just busy getting by. Posh types mope. Look out of windows. Smoke. Mope a bit more. Look out of more windows. Have a bit of a row. Cry. Look out of even more windows. Gah! Hester treats her husband like rubbish. Freddie treats Hester like rubbish. Hester treats herself like rubbish. It's so mannered and drenched in stylistic devices and cinematic tropes that they become at best distracting, at worst like a cinema school project with a budget.So where does that leave us? Nostalgic meditation on love? Or stylised bore-fest of posh-types gagging for it? To be honest I'm still stuck between a rock and a hard place. Between, the devil and the . hmmm hang-on . it's suddenly occurred to me that maybe that's the point. Christ, I think I need to watch something stupid to clear my brain.
blanche-2 Terence Davies rewrote some of "The Deep Blue Sea" for this film adaptation, released in 2011 and starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.Set in the 1950s, Weisz plays Hester, a young woman married to an older man (Simon Russell Beale). In the beginning of the film, we see her attempt suicide, and then we see what led up to it and beyond.We don't know much about her relationship with her husband. She seems fond of him, but not in love, and it's not clear why they married. In this film, he has a perfectly awful mother (Barbara Jefford) - she's not in the play, as I recall.Hester meets a returning air force pilot, Freddie Page (Hiddleston), and the two fall in love, or seem to -- clearly, like Anna Karenina, the physical side of the relationship is something all-encompassing and new to her, and she revels in it. She becomes obsessed with him and ultimately leaves her heartbroken husband, who refuses to give her a divorce. She moves in with her lover.It turns out the object of her affection is very self-involved, very shallow, and very restless for the good old days, loving to spend time in the pub with his cronies singing. "His favorite year is 1940," she tells her husband. He can't love her the way she needs to have him love her. "I can't be Romeo all the time!" he screams at his friend. Her suicide attempt is the last straw. He can't stay with her.This film has the look of the '50s, with his deep colors, and the hairstyles and clothing and mores are perfect. This is England after the war, trying to find its place in an altered world, like Freddie, who thinks being a test pilot in South America is just the ticket.I saw Rachel Weisz recently on stage with her husband Daniel Craig in Betrayal. The play was badly directed but I loved both of them. Weisz is so stunning in person -- absolutely gorgeous. Here she gives such a beautiful, gut-wrenching performance as a woman who can't live without passion. Hiddleston is excellent as a charming, upbeat man who doesn't delve deeply into things and when the going gets tough, runs out the door to the pub. He embodies this perfectly. Simon Russell Beale is a brilliant actor. Here it's obvious his character cares so much for Hester that he feels her pain and in the end, just wants her to be happy. But it's too late for that.The last scene is shattering -- Hester, desolate, looks out her window and sees life going on -- people on their way to work, children playing, people beginning their day...and the camera stops at a bombed out shell and stays there.Sounds like I loved it. I loved the emotion in it. I loved the acting. I actually wasn't crazy about the movie. First of all, I don't really understand the necessity of rewriting Terrence Rattigan. Seems a little presumptuous to me. Also, the filmed moved very slowly. Too slowly and seemed too long. Of course that could have been avoided if Davies hadn't added material.Because this is based on a play, the film has a theatricality about it, but Davies has opened it up. Definitely worth seeing for the acting.
craig-hopton This movie starts brilliantly. Director Terence Davies creates a scene centred around a suicide attempt that is quite beautiful and frightening. It really gets the movie going and gets you interested in the story.Rachael Weisz puts in an accomplished performance as the female protagonist at the centre of a love triangle. She is exceptional throughout and well supported by Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.So why didn't I like this movie more? Well, I think the answer lies in the fact that this movie is based on a play, and it shows. The scenes are long, heavy on dialogue, and not much is done with the screenplay to add something extra.I think this would be wonderful to see in a crowded theatre where the dramatic tension could build up with the audience in close proximity to the actors. But on a small screen, it just doesn't work as well. Eventually, it becomes boring. And the oddest thing about it is why, after the fantastic opening, Davies doesn't make more use of cinematic techniques to turn this into a "movie." He obviously had the ability, so why didn't he use it? A shame.