Dark Water (2005 film)

Dark Water - Dark Water is a film by the Brazilian director Walter Salles 's 2005 The horror film is a remake of Hideo Nakata's Dark Water, which in turn is based on a short story by Koji Suzuki.. It was produced by the Film Studios Touchstone Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment. In Germany, the film started on 22 September 2005 and had approximately 230,000 viewers. With a budget of 30 million U.S. dollars, he played worldwide approximately 50 million U.S. dollars.

Action

The attractive, mentally unstable Dahlia and her little daughter Cecilia pull during the divorce from New York to Iceland Roosevelt ( NYC ); there they rent a run-down apartment in a mass settlement. It is striking that there, though a very good school is only two blocks away, no children living, only a few young people.

During the tour of the apartment 9 -F runs it and Cecilia found on the roof of a " Hello Kitty" Kids Backpack - they deliver at the urging of her mother at the grumpy caretaker. Although the apartment makes a run down feel, draw a mother and daughter. But after a few days, piling strange events: The lift is a strange life of its own and from the tap is a tuft of hair. In addition, Cecilia At length an imaginary friend, as is noted in the school. Dahlia is increasingly plagued by nightmares in which she vainly searches for reconciliation with her mother.

In addition done in the apartment above them strange things - it is trampled and someone turns on the water, which soon finds its way through the ceiling into the apartment. Finally, it is striking that the imaginary friend Cecilia has the same name as the child of the previous tenant of the apartment 10 -F - " Natasha ".

Dahlia learns that it is unclear where the girl is Natasha disappeared to, as both estranged parents assume the child is at each other. Dahlia then draws the conclusion that the child must be left behind in the apartment 10 -F and have had a fatal accident there. She finds the girl's body in the water tank on the roof of the house.

Nevertheless, the spirit Natasha is no rest, on the contrary, he pressed Cecilia in school and the mother at home.

Meanwhile, Dahlia confidence has taken to her lawyer Platzer, which however can not help her when it comes to the great collapse. Cecilia bathes; Natasha suddenly sits with in the tub and starts to drown Cecilia. Natasha sets the whole room under water. To save her daughter, Natasha offers to Dahlia as a new mother and promises to live forever with her ​​in the house. Dahlia finally drowned in the bathroom. Cecilia wears by this experience of it a shock and is picked up by her father. As she enters the house one last time to get her things, she met in the elevator the spirit of her mother, her promise to always be there for them.

Symbols

First Dahlias is portrayed childhood, when she is neglected by her mother. Symbolic a scene is shown in which she waits for her mother, all the while playing with a small drum. This drum is inserted again and again. In addition, always occurs when Natasha appears to be involved in the events, dark water. For one, it leaks from the ceiling, it is also found in the uninhabited apartment on mother and child. It is found in a scene in the laundry room and is haunted as Cecilia in school by Natasha. Finally, the final is almost under water in dark.

Criticism

Encyclopedia of the International Films: A horror movie of the old school, which derives its effects from harmless situations that gradually condense into a web of foreboding. Outstanding performer support the largely successful attempt of Americanization of a Japanese template [ ... ].

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