{"id":11102,"date":"2015-03-16T01:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T05:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11102"},"modified":"2015-03-16T02:28:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T06:28:44","slug":"vhs-dive-the-dykket-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11102","title":{"rendered":"VHS: Dive, The \/ Dykket (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Dive1989_VHS\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0Good<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>: \u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

Label:<\/strong>\u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

Region:<\/strong>\u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Drama \/ Suspense<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0A ship’s crew struggle to save two men trapped in a diving bell on the ocean floor off the coast of Norway.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0n\/a<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Dive<\/strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0Dykket<\/strong>\u00a0runs with the hook of a simple last-minute job before a planned vacation that goes very, very wrong, which in the case of divers Gunnar (I am Dina<\/strong> and Dead Snow<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Bj\u00f8rn Sundquist) and new partner Rolf (Hamsun<\/strong>\u2019s Eindride Eidsvold) starts as a \u2018bounce dive\u2019 \u2013 five minutes to inspect and turn on an underwater oil pipeline valve \u2013 and ends up putting themselves and outgoing partner Bricks (Foyle\u2019s War<\/strong>\u00a0Michael Kitchen) in mortal danger.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing like having one\u2019s vacation ruined by an unplanned disaster, and director Tristan DeVere Cole milks every facet of the small diving operation on a medium-sized vessel with a helicopter port. We\u2019re shown how things flow when every component is functioning, and then understand the increasing danger as every effort to bring the men back to the surface makes things worse.<\/p>\n

Leidulv Risan and Carlos Wiggen\u2019s tight script benefits from the real locations and use of actual diving gear, and Harald Gunnar Paalgard\u2019s underwater cinematography is appropriately claustrophobic, restricting the trapped men\u2019s view to just a few surrounding meters on the ocean floor.<\/p>\n

Most of the dialogue is perfunctory, as the characters themselves aren\u2019t given much depth beyond the archetypical two partners\/long-time friends, an odd new recruit, and overlords caught between balancing safety rules and money (which involves pressure from the oil company to reactivate the pipeline and keep the cash flowing).<\/p>\n

Gunnar\u2019s wife Ann (Marika Lagercrantz) basically shifts from anxious to worried, worried to fearful, fearful to rage, rage to euphoria, and the ship\u2019s owner slides into a guilt-ridden pocket as his push to extract one more job from the divers might potentially tear apart a family.<\/p>\n

Woven into the script are some excellent factual dangers, though, and one quickly bonds with trapped divers Gunnar and Rolf, as well as Bricks, who attempts a brave 80 meter dive to attach oxygen, power, and winch cables when the ship has no other means to save the two men.<\/p>\n

The Dive<\/strong>\u00a0illustrates the kind of high tension and drama filmmakers can wrought from a simple concept, decent research, and authentic locations. The only flaws in the film are a few bouts of melodrama \u2013 Rolf\u2019s slide into paranoia is too neat and contrived, plus Gunnar\u2019s efforts to shake some sense into Rolf are too high pitched \u2013 and the music score by Bent \u00c5serud and Geir B\u00f8hren is a dated mix of synths and orchestra with optimistic themes that sometimes go against the director\u2019s efforts to establish a seed of danger.<\/p>\n

A Norwegian-British co-production,\u00a0The Dive<\/strong>\u00a0was probably designed to ride on the wave of three other underwater thrillers released in 1989: James Cameron\u2019s\u00a0The Abyss<\/strong>, and the two studio cheapies\u00a0Deepstar Six<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Leviathan<\/strong>, and while the American productions involved monsters and moralistic E.T.\u2019s, the neo-realism of\u00a0The Dive<\/strong>\u00a0is more satisfying because it\u2019s about the struggle to reach the surface when the technology that shields man from the ocean elements goes kaput.<\/p>\n

The setting of Norway’s North Sea oil boom was revisited in the more direct suspense-drama Pioneer<\/strong> \/ Pioner<\/strong><\/a> (2013).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2009 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a>\u00a0— IMDB<\/a>\u00a0— Composer Filmography<\/a>
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\nVendor Search Links:<\/strong>
\nAmazon.ca<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.com<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dive \/ Dykket runs with the hook of a simple last-minute job before a planned vacation that goes very, very wrong, which in the case of divers Gunnar and new partner Rolf, starts as a \u2018bounce dive\u2019 and ends up putting themselves and outgoing partner Bricks in mortal danger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[3546,3541,3548,3549,3544,3542,3547,3545,3543],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2T4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11119,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions\/11119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}