Below

Like Identity, Below was similar in ways. In Identity we looked at the environment and how we can try to make use of a limited area. That film is set in one motel; this film is set in one submarine. It’s similar in the ways of how in Identity the characters were practically stranded in the motel overnight, whereas this one the character cannot leave the submarine unless the want to be killed and be in the middle of nowhere in the ocean. Basically like Identity they are trying to make use of the environment since it is just limited to one submarine with different various rooms scattered around. What is again similar to Identity is that it’s basically a horror film thus the same kind of events take place such as people being attacked and mysterious things happening all the way throughout the film, it was kind of like watching an ‘Identity 2’ in honesty.

The ways it was different however was that the characters are on a mission to rescue survivors, whereas in Identity the characters just need to somewhere to stay overnight as the rain outside is causing flooding, though however I guess you can compare and say it is similar… Similar in the fact that in both situations you can say that it’s dangerous to go outside and then you can say it’s dangerous inside in both situations to… In Identity there is someone going around killing everyone and in Below there is a ‘ghost’ of some sort doing pretty much the same. It’s quite interesting, it’s as if both films have a similar plot but just set in different environments.

Enough of the story though, I thought that this film had good visuals, it’s set underwater all the way through until the final scene , so you expect to see a lot of blue and dark tones of colour throughout. Blue was definitely the most common colour in the film. The odd yellow, green, white, black and grey popping up to and a bit or red. It feels as if every film we watch has the same sort of colour palette.

It’s not until the final scene you sort of get a relief of seeing the same things over and over, but the idea of the whole film set in one location is great and they again like Identity made use of the different areas they were limited to. I’ve never heard of a World War II horror film before so it was nice to see a sort of different side or ‘idea’ if you like brought about the World War in this film.

I don’t know but to say it was supposed to be set back in the 1940’s, it just didn’t feel like it to me, it all seemed a bit to modern but however they captured the sense of fear and danger of being in a war and underwater very well and the ‘ghost’/horror side to it and the costumes they are wearing added to that feel very well I thought.