descent
for the most part, i loved this movie.
the less you know about it going in the better. so if you've yet to see it, stop reading now.
the story starts out as a group of six women engaging on a spelunking trip on the first anniversary of the death of one woman tragic loss of her husband and only daughter - on that daughter's birthday, no less. the team's leader opts to take them into uncharted caverns rather than the ones they had planned on but chooses not to let anyone know until it's too late to turn back due the collapse of a tunnel through which they had just crawled. then they realise that other spelunkers had been here before when they find equipment that hasn't been in use in about a century.
then the twists begin. the leader is accused of changing cavern in out of insatiable pride and reckless abandon. there are even hints that she had been involved in an affair with her friend's husband at the time of his death. then someone runs off and breaks her leg. but being trapped beneath the earth with no way of escape, an injured member and internal bickering just isn't enough. that's when the creatures appear and start attacking the women and eating them alive. literally.
the action gets an adrenaline kick at this point -- as does the frantic emotional state of the group. desperation, cold-hearted abandonment of friends and self-preservation take over. they get separated. some get injured, some injure each other, some get eaten, one finds out about the affair.
then they all get mad. they begin fighting back. they fight with knives. they fight with bones and antlers. they fight with those nifty rock-climbing axes that they all brought with them. they even take on these beasts with their bare hands. and sometimes they win. the blood, gore and betrayal mount as the remaining women descend (get the double entendre of the title?) into an animilistic state of survival.
in the end, the main character reaches a moral impasse just shy of the newfound escape passage as she stares down her dead husband's mistress and has to decide whether or not to forgive her trespasses. by this point, however, she's spent hours killing these subterranean, evolutionary ancestors of the human race and is quite comfortable with the concept of murder. what will she do?
the less you know about it going in the better. so if you've yet to see it, stop reading now.
the story starts out as a group of six women engaging on a spelunking trip on the first anniversary of the death of one woman tragic loss of her husband and only daughter - on that daughter's birthday, no less. the team's leader opts to take them into uncharted caverns rather than the ones they had planned on but chooses not to let anyone know until it's too late to turn back due the collapse of a tunnel through which they had just crawled. then they realise that other spelunkers had been here before when they find equipment that hasn't been in use in about a century.
then the twists begin. the leader is accused of changing cavern in out of insatiable pride and reckless abandon. there are even hints that she had been involved in an affair with her friend's husband at the time of his death. then someone runs off and breaks her leg. but being trapped beneath the earth with no way of escape, an injured member and internal bickering just isn't enough. that's when the creatures appear and start attacking the women and eating them alive. literally.
the action gets an adrenaline kick at this point -- as does the frantic emotional state of the group. desperation, cold-hearted abandonment of friends and self-preservation take over. they get separated. some get injured, some injure each other, some get eaten, one finds out about the affair.
then they all get mad. they begin fighting back. they fight with knives. they fight with bones and antlers. they fight with those nifty rock-climbing axes that they all brought with them. they even take on these beasts with their bare hands. and sometimes they win. the blood, gore and betrayal mount as the remaining women descend (get the double entendre of the title?) into an animilistic state of survival.
in the end, the main character reaches a moral impasse just shy of the newfound escape passage as she stares down her dead husband's mistress and has to decide whether or not to forgive her trespasses. by this point, however, she's spent hours killing these subterranean, evolutionary ancestors of the human race and is quite comfortable with the concept of murder. what will she do?
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