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> ‘The Cave’ movie review

Jerrison Oracion
Senior Columnist

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t's been more than a year ago since a Thai
boys soccer team was rescued from the
Tham Luang cave in Thailand.
The rescue was made possible
by many organizations not only from
Thailand but also from the rest of the
world. Organizations of divers and
first responders came to help out and
additionally the military. The entire world
watched as divers tried to get the team of
boys out of the cave before heavy rainfall
would flood the cave again and make
it impossible to get out. The definitive
account of the entire mission is shown in
the 2019 film The Cave.
The film shows how the many rescuers
and volunteers were able to figure out the

 

complex task of getting everyone out of
the cave with a limited amount of time.
Many of the people that were involved in
the mission were featured in the film—
including four of the divers that saved the
lives of everyone in the cave.

Adding the real heroes to this movie
caused the film to be very realistic, as
though it was filmed when it happened.
The film is similar to Patriots Day, in the
way that it gives very specific details of
the progress made by rescuers. The film’s
score sounds like it could be made by Hans
Zimmer.

When the film was shown in the
Vancouver International Film Festival. The
director of the film, Tom Waller, and two
of the rescuers who consulted the director
on the film, Jim Warny and Erik Brown,
were in attendance. During the Q&A at one
of the screenings, they talked about how
they made the film. Waller got the idea

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Kens the legacy alive and shattering
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minds of audiences. The movie shows the
decline of the Joker—from a regular guy
on the street to a man who the streets of
Gotham City refused to accept. He was
beaten, thrashed, and let down at every
point of his life. You become destructive
when you have nothing to lose.

Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a
clown and a comic artist. But in actuality,
he is not good at his profession. The
problem is that his jokes have no humour.
This was shown in his first comedy show,
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footage went viral for the funniest (and
worst) of all reasons—for not being funny.

Phoenix’s impeccable acting combined
with the directing kept the audience
holding their breath. Director Todd Phillips
has previously worked on the scripts of
Road Trip, Old School, and The Hangover.
Writer Scott Silver has worked on Johns,
and The Fighter. With each of their movies
the bar has risen, and now with Joker, it has
reached the ceiling.

Joker’s real job was to hold a billboard
for a shop dressed as a clown. Some kids
got ahold of his sign, gave him a long chase,
and pummeled him so badly that it cost
him his job. The sad part was that he was
then fired for no fault of his own. When he
was travelling back from a hard day, he was
bullied by drunk passengers on the train
when his illness of uncontrollable laughter
struck. He fired shots at them with a gun
his friend gifted to him. After that, a battle

of making the film when he watched the
coverage of the cave rescue.

Waller was able to get most of the
people that were involved in the mission
by asking Warny to play himself in the
film. After that, Warny told Brown about
it, Brown agreed to it, and that led to more
first responders participating in the film.
They were also able to get the coach of the
soccer team—but not the members of the
soccer team since the Thai government
already signed with Netflix for a miniseries
on the boys.

The Cave was not filmed in Tham
Luang for it’s entirety—part of it was filmed
in other caves in eastern Thailand because
the Thai government did not allow them
to film inside Tham Luang until January—
when the water had safely subsided. Also,
Waller was worried that he had to edit
the film when it went through the Thai
censors, but he was able to present it the

of blood and gore began.

In this film, we see that the life
of Arthur Fleck has been hard since
childhood. His mom adopted him while
she was mentally unwell. His adoptive
father abandoned Arthur and his mother.
He became fatal when he discovered
the truth of his life. When he says to
his therapist, “I haven't been happy one
minute of my entire fucking life,” he meant
every single word.

But don’t just take my word for it.
Many other people have professed how
much they enjoyed the movie. Saksham
Thakkar, a Douglas student, in an interview
with the Other Press said, “The movie was
A-mazing. For not even a split second I
could take my eyes off. It was so intense
with a relevant issue and explaining the
history behind the characters of Batman
and Joker. Joaquin Phoenix has put forward
his best foot.”

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Promotional image for 'The Cave' via VIFF

way he wanted to show it without cuts from
the government.

After the Q&A, the Other Press asked
Waller how much of the dialogue in the
script is from actual conversations in the
rescue, and he responded with the fact that
most of it is from actual conversations. The
Other Press then asked Warny and Brown
what the hardest thing they had to do
during the mission was.

Warny told the Other Press that
holding the boys was very hard since they
are heavy and carrying them underwater
through the cave was difficult. Brown said
that it was hard to communicate with the
rest of the team since they could not talk to
the control room at any point, and he also
said the conditions inside the cave were
challenging.

The Cave is an inspiring film that
shows that when everyone works together,
a positive outcome can happen.

 

Illustration by Athena Little

The movie is the biggest October
opening week film and also has had the
biggest second weekend for a film. With
Phoenix’s performance, the film will
probably continue to break records. If you
are looking for a movie that will give you
shivers, get your tickets right now. You
might regret missing this box office hit in
theatres.