The Sea Inside Reviews

"Mar adentro" is a movie through touch on the innermost hearts. I'ts not just any story that makes us reflect on the validity of our own lives. And for the construction of the message are added to the powers of the director, actors, soundtrack, assembly and photography. Amenábar is an extraordinary filmmaker. He could really force the emotions of those watching through primary devices that Hollywood is still trying to use (and that Spielberg, for example, dominates like nobody). Instead, he lets the emotional potential of the situations portrayed itself excites the viewer, producing true feelings. Much of it by Javier Badem delivers his best performance in his career. In that sense, what won me over was the fact that Ramon, his character was, at least in the film, an amazing person. Their speeches denouncing a tremendous sobriety and a realistic science of what it means dignity. It is impossible not to empathize with the subject. "The Sea Inside" is a story truly worthy of being known. If I had the opportunity to speak with Ramon, I'd say, "Ramon, friend, I support your decision."

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I was quite eager to check it out again. To be honest, so far, I had some rather mixed feelings about Alejandro Amenabar's work so far. Indeed, I thought that 'Abre los Ojos' was pretty good but nothing really amazing and, in my opinion, 'The Others' was well made but eventually rather underwhelming and therefore quite overrated. Later on, ‘Regression’ also turned out to be (deservedly) a critical and commercial flop. Anyway, this time, Amenabar didn't disappoint me though, in the contrary, he actually really blew me away. First of all, it might seem morbid but I always thought that euthanasia was a really interesting subject. Indeed, if we are allowed to chose what we want to do with our life, why shouldn't we have the right to choose what we want to do with our own death? So, it was definitely interesting and this movie turned out to the best one about this delicate subject, even if I have to admit that the movies dealing with this matter are actually really rare. Eventually, the directing was really solid but I was above all impressed by Javier Bardem. Indeed, a few years later, he eventually won a Oscar for 'No country for Old men' but I think this movie and his performance in this movie was actually much better. Of course, you can't really compare a banana and an apple... Anyway, it was a riveting story and Bardem gave his best performance (so far). To conclude, it was a fascinating and heartbreaking drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Spanish movies.