The descent of the human nature

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2017)

'The descent' is a film of Neil Marshall in 2005. The title can suggest some ideas: - The descent the six friends into one cave. - The descent of human towards its real animal nature, in this case, the human can do horrible things for maintain her/his own life, even kill if is necessary.
For other hand, along of the story, we can observe and identify the personality of the six women: - Sarah: brave and depressive. - Juno: selfish and proud. - Beth: helpful and sensible. - Rebecca: intelligent, strong and protective. - Sam: emotional and enthusiast - Holly: impulsive and angry.
Furthermore, there are good aspects in the movie that we can emphasize, for example: - The incredible realism for the cave: the dust, the sensation of claustrophobic and the rough relief. - The play of colors's lights between red (flare and blood), yellow (wood fire and artificial light) and green (flashlight); this light's game we can see it in the film 'Creep'. - The comfortable and beautiful woods. - The sensible and profound soundtrack that transmits emotions like mystery, adventure and horror; especially in the beginning and the ending. - The use of dreams and hallucinations for represent the Sarah's traumas. - The violent battles between women and crawlers, and the dramatic deaths of some characters.
This movie has bad elements like: - The clichés of horror movies: in middle of the nothing (woods), the stupid decisions of main characters, false scares, and, more recently, the use of screamers. - The excessive use of blood during the crawlers's death.
The story we can divide in five parts: - The beginning: A car accident, where Sarah loses her husband and daughter. The meeting of six friend in middle of woods (Chattooga National Park) and the road towards the cave. - In the cave: The six friends enter in the cave, they cross narrow tunnels. The collapse of one tunnel and the fear of Sarah. The lie and the descent of Juno. The dexterity of Rebecca. - The accidents: Accidentally, Juno hurts the Rebecca's hand when she falls. The fracture and splinting of Holly. The first sighting of crawlers and the discovery of the cave paintings. - The attack of crawlers: The six friends find one place with many animal bones and the crawlers attack. Holly dies; Juno kills one crawler and to, accidentally, Beth. One crawler hunts to Rebecca and Sam. Sarah sees the horrible nature of the crawlers, she kills Beth and three crawlers. Juno saves to Rebecca and Sam of her hunter, but later these two sister die for the crawlers's hunting. - The depressive ending: Sarah and Juno gather again, they fight against some crawlers in a bloody and violent battle, Sarah discovers the truth of Juno and she wounds the Juno's leg. Sarah falls of tunnel, she dreams with her escape of cave and the Juno's ghost. Finally, Sarah wakes inside cave, she sees her daughter meanwhile we hear the crawlers's calls.
Along the movie, there are some mysteries unsolved: - The origin of cave paintings. - The origin of crawlers, possibly they were humans. - The destiny of the adventurers of XX century. - The destiny of Sarah.
The Sarah's revenge against Juno can have several motives, for example: - Juno had one adventure with the Sarah's husband. - Juno wounded and left Beth. - Sarah needs to live and she uses to Juno like bait.
The Sarah's destiny during story's ending could be the next: - Sarah will die in cave by the crawlers. - Sarah will survive inside the cave and she will be one crawler. - Sarah will achieve to encounter the departure of cave.
The second part of story is bad, it changes essential elements and it responses some my questions, but I consider that film like one apocryphal story. In addition, whether the studios do the third part, then I hope a best story and that film will put in order the errors of second part.
Without a doubt, 'The descent' is an excellent horror movie and it deserves major recognize for its achievements.