2024-03-02 12:06:22
“The Abyss”, Netflix
Huge natural disaster movies are usually made in America. David overseas has the necessary means, the budgets, the powerful computers that will draw for us how nature has risen upon us for our brides. The movie “The Abyss” was made by Swedes in Sweden, for sure with a much smaller budget, which made watching it intriguing.
The disaster takes place in the (real) city of Kiruna, located in northern Sweden, in Lapland itself. The city was founded by iron miners found in its surroundings in huge quantities. The mine kept growing, until it created a fear that the city’s houses would collapse. As a result, the city council decided to establish the new Kiruna, at a safe distance from the mine, and move, no less, all the public buildings of the city and all the residents’ houses there. To this end, the transfer project was budgeted at one billion dollars and an action plan was drawn up to be completed in the year 2100.
The feature film “The Abyss” is launched based on these true data. In the film, the city is already sinking, small earthquakes occur on an almost daily basis in the city, and several teenagers disappear in the vicinity of a large depression already caused by the mine. In some incomprehensible twist, by the way, the boys appear later Somewhere else around, and anyone who understands how and why is welcome to send me an explanation, thanks.
This is not the only problem with “The Abyss”. The protagonists of the film are Friga, a tough woman who rarely smiles and is responsible for safety in the mine, who is in a relationship with a new partner, Damir, when her husband Taga, from whom she has separated and will soon be divorced, appears around and begins to interfere just as the great crisis in the mine erupts and her old Kirona begins to sink and disintegrate.
Somehow the super disaster measured up in the film without screwing up too much. It’s not goog and goog, but the meager Swedish budget makes it possible to create a few cracks in the roads, a few cars fall into the cracks, computers produce large waves of dust that cover Kiruna – not something colossal, not in quantities that satisfy the hunger of an avid disaster viewer, and, on the other hand, not in the required stinginess the viewer to switch to another channel.
The relationships between the people, the dialogues, the looks, do not descend into the abyss of, say, “La Brea” which set standards of misery, but they are not far from it either. Taga (sorry for the mini-spoiler) in one of the climaxes of the disaster steals from Damir the wedding ring that he intended Wear it on Friga’s finger, and they both start beating, and this is an example of the twisted emotional shocks that the film offers to the viewer. The moments of tension under the ground are not far from a drama produced by elementary school students in an art class. All in all, “The Abyss” is a film that is not worth wasting your time on. It is better for the Scandinavians to leave the disaster movies and make us a new season of “The Bridge”.
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