Sanctum

Sanctum

Film Analysis

The film is an Australian 3D adventure drama. It is entitled “Sanctum” directed by Alister Grierson and co-produced by the famous James Cameron. The main casts of the film that gave a lot of thrills, adventure and drama are Richard Roxburgh as Frank McGuire, Ioan Gruffud as Carl Hurley, Rhys Wakefield as Josh McGuire, Alice Parkinson as Victoria, Daniel Wylie as George and Cramer Cain as Luko. They completed the film giving life to its concept of a thrilling underwater cave adventure. 

The film started showing the different side of the world. This was by beginning the film in the market side of their native place and there showing that they know how to trade and how trading a part of their economy and culture. Along their way, they passed through a number of different races, the primary group of people living in Papua New Guinea, their stereotypes and undeniably their different social status can be observed. 

Josh, son of Frank who is a master diver, Carl, financer, and Victoria, Carl’s girlfriend, went down the cave to join the underwater cave exploration of their team and be a part of the discovery of the Esa’ala Cave as one of the greatest nature’s wonder. Inside the cave, Judes, Frank’s co-diver, died because of an accident while they were in section of the cave known as the “Devil’s Restriction”. The incident caused conflict between Frank and Josh, and also between his comrades. His son decided to go out of their camp but he discovered that their communications with the surface broke down, so he decided to go back and save his only family, his father Frank and his friends. Due to the storm, they were trapped down the cave and the water level arose quickly so the group in Frank’s authority went deep inside the cave to find another exit route. At their expedition inside the cave on finding the way out, cooperation rather than competition was really a need in order to survive the challenges they were in to. George, Frank’s long team mate, who underwent the cycle of retreatism, decided to die because he was sick and will be a burden of their group if he insisted to go on. Then after him, Victoria was accidentally caught by the pulley and fell down to death. Ironically, his boyfriend Frank seemed to form a rebellion against Frank so he decided to left Frank and Josh on their way. 

Frank died because of Carl, who forgot that it was their utang-na-loob to Frank that they reached that point alive. Carl, out of shame, went on by himself and alone he met his demise. Josh, Frank’s son, continued his journey out of the cave no matter sad he was because of his father’s and friends’ death. 

The actors played their roles effectively that they even showed how great imitation they applied just to make it look realistic. The empathy and sentiments they had can also be seen and be felt. From Richard Roxburgh as Frank McGuire, you could really see his strength in all of his moves. Ioan Gruffud as Carl Hurley, if you were to look back on him in the film, he really showed the extreme pain of losing someone in that very miserable way. Rhys Wakefield as Josh McGuire, undeniably he illustrated the usual attitude of an adolescent reacting on those heavy experiences. We can actually say that being the tenth-highest-grossing Australian film at the international box office is really worth it. 

The screenplay of the movie was done by John Garvin and Andrew Wight, the music was by David Hirschfelder, Jules O’ Loughlin for the cinematography and Mark Warner for the editing. That group of professionals gave a lot of help making the film look more natural and environmental. The music played helped a lot in giving the film life and excitement about what is in and going on in the film. The techniques they’d used were very efficient in the sense that the viewers can feel its essence. 

With the films overall presentation, I can say that many people should also watch it because it shows a lot of traits that one should develop and understand as he is living with his life. Knowing the fact that there are really great possibilities of undergoing such very big problems and that you really need to have a wide clear mind to make right decisions and know how to take the risks. This film will nurture every human group in the society that in life we need to make crucial decisions and fill the other’s needs… 

“Never give up, no matter what happens. You never give up”.~Frank