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In The Descent, director Neil Marshall uses caves as symbols of hidden desires and buried resentments. He also uses tunnels as symbols of self-discovery. As the women in the story move physically from one place to another through passageways in caverns, they likewise uncover hidden depths about themselves and each other. Many of these truths are unpleasant and perhaps better left hidden.
Juno and Sarah, the two lead characters, have the most to hide from each other. Their mixed relationship gives the movie its forward momentum. They are like two tectonic plates on a collision course. Juno’s secret affair with Sarah’s husband indirectly causes the death of him and Sarah’s young daughter. Sarah suspects the two of having an affair but keeps her suspicions buried. She does not want to risk threatening their friendship. In addition, she, like the other women in the group, is afraid of Juno’s domineering personality. Sarah would rather avoid Juno than confront her.
The other women share similar mixed feelings for each other. They seem like a tight and friendly group, but beneath the surface, they have hidden depths in the form of conflicting loyalties. Two of the women are sisters which makes them a small group within the group. Juno and Karen seem closer to each other than to the rest of the group. Sarah and Annie have a close friendship. Annie also seems to dislike Juno’s alpha personality and appears to have no trouble standing up to her. All of these fissures widen and erupt into conflict the group begins their adventure. The descent into the cave is really a descent into their subterranean tensions and attitudes.
Director Marshall further reinforces this theme of conflict with the creatures that the women encounter. These creatures come to represent the women’s inner impulses of anger and resentment. Their better natures want to stick together and help each other as a group. Their deeper and more primitive natures—their inner monsters—want to abandon the group and save themselves. These inner monsters—like the actual monsters—tear the group into smaller pieces and lead to their downfall.
This theme of inner conflict comes to its climax in the final and inevitable showdown between Sarah and Juno. Before Sarah confronts Juno, she fights with a female monster. The monster clearly represents Sarah’s darker side. She has been wrestling with her distrust of Juno throughout the movie. That distrust now boils over into anger and outright fury once she learns that Juno injured Annie and left her to die. Though Sarah kills the female creature, Sarah’s own inner creature of hatred is very much alive and victorious. Sarah herself is reborn as a monster of insane and uncontrollable vengeance. Juno dies, but so does Sarah. Nobody wins.
The movie ends on an unexpected sentimental note. Marshall shows the Polaroid snapshot that the women took of themselves on the morning of their expedition. It reminds us of the genuine friendship and happiness that existed between the women before their lives took a sudden turn for the worse. It also reminds all of us in the audience about how fleeting and transient all happiness is. As Sarah’s pendant says: “Live each day.”
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I love this movie, but the disc I've recieved today is giving me problems. I've attached photos of how it looks on my tv. All my other discs work as normal. This is a big tv so there screen isn't even half covered, you can see the child's head is cut off, as are the rest of the adults AFTER I finally get the pop up menu to come on it will show their heads/ faces as it should. For a few minutes. Then it either goes black line when it first comes on or it cuts their heads off again lol I'm not happy with the disc, it's funny because of all the things that could've happened to this disc, this is what I got lol
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Muy buena película y mejor edición.
Reviewed in Mexico on January 18, 2021
François Déry
Tellement et vraiment excellent
Reviewed in Canada on August 28, 2021