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Dark Water

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Water of fear

If the closest thing to John Woo's cinema would be a hammer (caus' its force at its best is repeating the same things again and again), in case of Nakata it's more likely to be a press. He's in fact taking in every movie one main classic mechanism of the fantastic genre and pressing it to the maximum to extract its force: in Ring it's "suggestion instead of showing" (Tourneur's main rule), in Chaos it's "meeting someone who looks like someone you know" (Vertigo's idea). In Dark Water it's "water as a way to create drama" (already used in Seven). And it works: we've seen this before, we know what the next scene will be but because of the maximal use of water -water in the bath, water falling down from the ceiling, water creating the inundation of a room- we are frightened. The other great idea of the movie is the use of the theme of divorce and childhood to bring more drama in the movie. And for the rest it's Kawai's hypnotic score and Nakata's sense of frame. It's few but it works.



07 February 2003
by Ordell Robbie


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