report-913-957297 is was the worst film I have seen since Tree of Life. If you saw and liked The Tree of Life we have nothing in common.This filmmaker deploys state of the art technology to produce a film that might have some interest in an art gallery; but only you after you have walked your feet off and need a place to rest for 5 minutes. You could fast forward the film, see all the images and make a connection that that we have heard time and again.There is no story and no talking though I would love to have shouted out comments (preferably with expletives).The images were clear and there was music. The film can be deemed to possess artistic merit(almost anything not massed produced can be described this way) but hardly worth a dime, let alone the $16 I paid.

Hellhawk666 It's interesting that so many reviews of this film rate it poorly. Whilst I'd not give it 10 stars, it's certainly worth 7. The script is fine, the acting good, the direction and production OK - what's not to like? I guess a lot of the people who don't "get" this film were either expecting something quite different, or else they are not sailors. The general plot has been covered here several times so I won't repeat it again at length - it is a simple situational thriller in which a lone sailor, becalmed in the Indian Ocean, begins to experience vivid hallucinations. These are at least partly in reaction to the death of both her parents whilst her round the world single-handed attempt was under way.Were the "visitors" real? No, of course not - not one - they are all complete fantasies. Lone sailors frequently experience vivid, lucid hallucinations during long voyages. Watch "Deep Water", the recent bio-pic about the Golden Globe trophy in 1968, to get a taste of this in real life. One competitor went totally nuts and jumped overboard after creating an elaborate hoax regarding his position - another saw and talked to Bing Crosby whilst in the middle of the Atlantic! It's old news.What made the film gripping for me was the realization that, isolated as she was, her own mind was her greatest enemy. At one point she jumps overboard to escape imaginary pirates, and only comes back to her senses once on board again. Another time she sets fire to the boat to fight the "visitors". That's REAL terror - the knowledge that in an isolated and totally self-sufficient environment, you may do yourself or your only means of survival real damage during an hallucination. The one person you can absolutely trust, yourself, is suddenly someone to be feared. Truly terrifying, more so than any ghost story, and the actual point of the film.The end is sound and not at all muddled, as some people have said. She comes to grips with the death of her parents, most importantly by realizing that she was not to blame for the accident that left her father crippled or for her mother's eventual suicide. Her boyfriend is apparently unfaithful and her sponsor for the race has backed out. So, she does the best thing possible - she crosses the finishing line and then without stopping turns around and sails on to new horizons in New Zealand, perhaps to find the man with whom (it is hinted) she had a relationship before leaving on her voyage.Her mental stability is restored, and she's ready for life again, symbolized by her cat no longer "talking" to her, but just being a normal cat. Those who don't "get" the ending probably prefer simplistic endings where everything works out happily ever after for everyone. Go watch a Disney film instead - you'll probably prefer that.

Eileen McHenry I liked this one. It's a phantasmal little movie about a woman sailing alone around the world, becalmed in the Indian Ocean when she's only a few days' sail from the end of her trip. She starts to see all kinds of strange and troubling things on board her yacht, including the ghost of her mother, pirates that appear and disappear, and a Maori tribesman in traditional native costume. The movie offers three possible explanations for why this is happening: A) she's been alone too long and is going bazongas, B) she's really seeing ghosts, and C) the magic crabs hitching a ride on the boat's hull are creating the whole situation. I like the crab theory myself, but the movie leaves the question tantalizingly unresolved.

prddad Spoiler Alert!! The back of the movie is what drew me to it, but it was the ending that sank this boat. I mean, come on, a movie about a woman at sea, is experiencing possible "hallucinations" (of her mom and a sailor to name a few), but these "hallucinations" can actually touch and hurt her. Is it aliens? Is it ghosts? No...(spoiler here) it's some type of spider creature that is at the bottom of her boat that is doing this? I'm sorry, the movie started boring (background on how she ended up on the boat (but we needed this, I understand)), then came the action, then to practically end it all with these "spiders". The director should have had this movie viewed by an audience, and once the boos came when the spiders showed up, he should have redone the ending.