This may be one of the best on sea movies i`ve watched up to now.

The one-man story is so thrilling that gives you goose bumps all the way. Well, not all the way, until the end.

Due to the fact that it`s an american movie, we are expected to see a happy ending. But the suffering along the 90 first minutes is so horrifying that will make you wish you`d never go on a sail boat ever!

The amazing part that i loved about this movie is the calm that Robert Redford had during all the mishaps.

Thrilling and in some parts horrifying, we feel for the poor guy all the way.

And i mentioned above that until the end everything is as chilling as it can get, because the end is typically american. The guy accepts his fate of not being rescued and almost surrenders to Davy Jones’ Locker, when he sees a light in the water from a boat approaching and looking for him, after he sets accidentally his raft on fire.

 

One thing though:

the guy took out a flare to signal his position where he was on a raft in plane sight of a vessel. Two night in a row. No one saw him. No one came to rescue him. now, “Article 11 of the Brussels Convention provides: “Every master is bound, so far as he can do so without serious danger to his vessel, her crew and passengers, to render assistance to everybody, even though an enemy, found at sea in danger of being lost.” Article 11 also provides that a vessel owner is not liable for the master’s failure to render the required aid.” also, on the same site, it is mentioned the following: “There are few cases addressing breach of the duty to rescue persons in distress at sea. Buffalo Law Review commentator Patrick J. Long reasoned in The Good Samaritan and Admiralty: A Parable of a Statute Lost At Sea: “Dead men tell no tales. Nor do they sue. Only those castaways who survive, and who can identify a passing ship, would be able to sue the ship’s captain for leaving them behind. A decedent’s family would have little means of discovering which ships may have passed by a loved one.” Despite what might seem to be unambiguous international and federal obligations to rescue persons in danger at sea, the courts have not been uniform when analyzing those obligations.

And I know for sure that there are shifts for the command when the captain is resting. So how in hell can you leave a man stranding in the middle of the ocean when he clearly is in plain sight? Not to mention that the raft was orange…

This movie deserves a watch regarding your preferences in movies.

 

Picture from IMDB.

“Italic writing” from Pacmar.