I just watched a movie. It’s called ‘Sanctum’. It’s about a young boy around eighteen to twenty years old. His father is a diver. He dives in caves that are flooded and hidden under water. He is in an expedition. This boy does not like his father’s obsession over cave-diving. The father, with a fellow diver makes a big discovery; an under -water cave tunnel which leads to the ocean. But, an accident happens and the fellow diver dies. He boy blames his father for her death, accusing that he left the person to die. Then, due to a heavy rain and a cyclone, the caves they were diving, start to get flooded. Only six were left. While they were climbing up, through the cave, a flood of water comes and push them back into the tunnel. One fellow man disappears in the gush of water. When the other five; father, the boy whose name is Josh, another fellow diver, another man and his girl friend. They find the man who disappeared a while ago who is fatally injured. The father says that he has to end the man’s suffering and hold the man under water until his last breath mixes into the flood water. Josh thinks his father is a monster with no feelings. Then, the fellow cave diver, finds himself to be bleeding while coughing, which means he only slows the others down. He voluntarily leave the rest of the group and hide and wait till water rises above his nose. Father forces them to move on no matter what happens. The woman, who has no experience in diving or climbing soon meets her death in another unfortunate accident. The caves are filling with water and oxygen tanks are also getting empty in each dive they make to transfer from one cave to the other. The man, steal the final re-breather and escape while Joshua and his father are left in the caves. But they find another way. While they are climbing, the boy and the father gets closer to each other. Joshua sees the real father hidden inside this apparent cold man. At the end, the man who stole from them mortally injures the father, saying that he(father) left his girl friend to die. The man finally goes on a suicidal escape attempt and die. Father cannot move since his spinal cord is broken in the fight. Father request Josh to help him. He asks his son to hold him under water until he dies. The son, after finding who his father really is, has to help his own father dies in his arm. Finally, Josh escapes.
This made me think a lot. I Think of how uncertain our lives are. How small an incident does it take to put ourselves in a mortal danger? How mighty is the nature and how frail we are? How nature can overpower every possible human technology! In this journey of life, how many people fall back? How many people quite? How many people stay behind for the greater good? How many people go insane without being able to handle situations? And all the more….how irresponsible are we, not to try and understand the people that we love? Why do we always postpone showing a bit of love? Why don’t we try and read the other person next to us? Why do we keep back what we should be saying to them? If we don’t do it today at all cost…we might not have a tomorrow. There won’t be that person sitting next to you tomorrow. If you don’t do what you have to do today…..you might be forced to leave a newly understood dead daddy or mommy down in that cave. You might lose you sibling, lover or a friend back in that cave………Yet, even if he lost his dad, Josh went on and up to date he lives, somewhere in the world because that is what his father wanted him to do. How many of us, posses such courage? How many of us would have gone on? Think……that’s what we should do. That’s what I do.
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