DonвЂ™t let the weird Latin sounding name fool you, it pretty much just means a story where a protagonist experiences something that causes them to grow up. In the writing craft, we would call this kind of narrative a bildungsroman story. However, you could also be accurate in saying that The Shallows is a coming of age film. The tropes are all there вЂ“ an impossibly dangerous monster, the lone female character struggling for her life, little to no weapons etc.

You cannot escape the inherent survival horror nature of the story.

It would be accurate to say that The Shallows is a survival horror film. However, what really held the movie up above others of the genre, was its focus of characterization and the progression of Nancy from indecisive student, dancing around unsure of whether sheвЂ™s dropping out or not, to a strong, courageous woman who knows her purpose. Blake LivelyвЂ™s performance was awesome, and in combination with the writing, lead me to wonder exactly what genre of story I was actually seeing play out in front of me.ДonвЂ™t get me wrong, thereвЂ™s plenty of pulp-horror shark attack action in the film to keep viewers into that sort of thing entertained. Thinking I was going in to see another B-grade shark attack movie, I actually found myself being pleasantly surprised by both the acting and the story. It follows the horrifying story of a young medical student named Nancy who arrives at the unnamed beach her mother visited while pregnant with her, and ends up stranded atop a coral reef 200 yards from the shore, while a gigantic great white stalks her from the water. The Shallows is an American film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra ( Orphan, Run All Night), written by Anthony Jaswinski ( Vanishing On 7 th Street) and starring Blake Lively ( Gossip Girl).

We decided to jump on the bandwagon and head long with our flatmates to the cinema and check out the latest Shark attack movie The Shallows. Once again, my partner and I found ourselves on a rainy New Zealand Sunday with not much to do.

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