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It's a heartbreaking, troubling film about men whose lives were cruelly deprioritised and whose families remain ever altered as a result. Thomas Vinterberg's skillful recreation of the 2000 disaster that saw 118 men die is a film that bristles with rage and sadness.
In the final act of Thomas Vinterberg's fiery retelling of the devastating Kursk submarine disaster of 2000, his fictional protagonist Mikhail Kalekov, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, asks a chilling question. He's facing the seeming inevitability of death, having left his pregnant wife and three-year-old son on land, stranded on the bottom of the ocean with his surviving shipmates, one of whom was left fatherless when he was also aged three. Kalekov asks him: "What do you remember of your father?" He replies: "Nothing."
It's a haunting, hopeless moment in a film that not only stings with sadness but bristles with rage. Like in 2016's Deepwater Horizon, which told of a similarly waterlogged disaster, there's frighteningly well-choreographed human tragedy but also an unblinking urgency in holding the feet of those accountable to the fire. In that film it was the callous corporate greed of BP. This time, it's the inhumane pridefulness of the Russian military.
Benjamin Lee The Guardian
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