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Before I start I want to give you a little warning that it will have SPOILERS (A LOT) and I apologize because I can get a lil carried away with it heh (hope I will not mix up the events from the movie). THIS IS GONNA BE LONG. BE PREPARED!

Enough with formalities, let's go to the first aspect I want to show here.

1.Time and space management

In the beginning the action is very slow, nothing spectacular happen. I know that for some people it was boring but if you like the game itself it will not be a problem. I will say more, even if you do not know the game you can enjoy it thanks to the brilliant shots that show small details in a close-up. It may feel unnecessary but it gives some sense of a potential danger . Like small blood drops that remind us about the environment the main character is in. And it illustrates that the iron lung is not that save, not build that well as it was persuaded to the convict. As the time goes, the events are getting more intese, shocking and complicated. That change is done very smoothly and it kinda represent how "theoretically" simple job turns into the worst nightmare.

2.Music

That is another piece which creates well done atmosphere of terror, danger. For some it may be something small but with great shots in the movie the music really adds tension to the scenes. Like even when I was listening to soundtrack after the movie I felt like I was in some kind od danger hah. It give you sense of aloneness, dispair, fear etc.

3.Objectification/dehumanization of man

The expedition in the blood sea stars right away, we don't get an introduction to the main character or to the person/people from the station speaking through a speaker. They refer to the protagonist as convict, which shows that he probably isn't here by his own will. But he isn't called like that only because he is a prisoner of C.O.I. He is given this title because... no one at the station knows his name. They send him to certain death but didn't actually care to know his name. He is a tool and we aren't giving special names to tools. A hammer is just a hammer like any other and will eventually be useless, broken, replaced so why bother giving it a personality.

We get to know his name (Simon) by hallucination/monster in the sea/sea itself (depends how you interpret this) which is surprising because this things aren't associated with humanity but it give him more care and the feeling of being human than actual people.

And after a long time we get to know a name of one of the workers- Ava. And I think that after we and Simon know her name and she knows Simon's, she became more human to him. She gives him hope for freedom (like earlier when Simon asks if he will be free after given task she dismiss his question but after, when their names are known, to the same question she answer that he will be free). We know that it was false hope, but she really mean it. She trusted him when he talked about SM-8, she was ready to sacrifice her life, even though the orders from people in higher positions where different, because she believed him.

b) Lies

I didn't know where to put this point so I putting it here, because the amount of lies that Simon is feed with is insane. I mean giving him no instructions was already a terrible behavior, but THIS is even worse. Yeah let's tell him that this is the first expedition and the camera that uses radiation is totally save for him. If you don't want to tell him a truth just tell him something that make any sense, not something that he is gonna uncover that fast. Just being in the sub in the blood sea is a bad situation for him, but giving him only small information about the submarine and the mission is just awful. How he can fulfill his task, how he will bring back all resources that he will get if he doesn't know any options that he have to escape the potential danger?

Or maybe they don't really need resources, they just want his death?

4."This is not an expedition. It is an execution. When they put you in here, they don’t want you to return. And even if you do, and even if they keep their promises... what freedom waits for you?"

This words really summarize what I said earlier. From the start Simon was doomed to failure, sentenced to death (and this could be another reason why he was called The convict). Even if he would somehow survive the expedition and the radiation wouldn't effect on him, he wouldn't be living in the same world as before.

5.Simon's change throughout the story

We see Simon as the man who wants to survive. He will do anything just to survive. Because of his decisions the Filament Station was blown up and he is the only one that survived this. When Simon is placed in submarine he finds out that his life is at risk. So he is trying to escape it, but it's impossible for him. At the end, when there is no hope for him, he has two choices: 1.just wait for death/do something to die faster 2.do as much as he can to protect the Black Box. He goes with option 2, he loses his arm to get this done. He did it, but he lost something that he was fighting for, his life.

He changed from the man that will do anything to survive to the man who accepted his death and sacrifice his last minutes of life to save the others.

6.The tragedy of the story

For some people Simon was a horrible person who deserved his fate. It is true that he made horrible mistakes that caused death and maybe he deserved that (but to be honest idk if I can say that he fully deserved that horror.Maybe I am too nice to him?). But it doesn't really matter. Why? Because even if he was a good person he could get the same treatment. We don't know if the person before him was good or bad. When you are in submarine it doesn't matter who you are. All they need from you is your execution. I said before that Simon was only the tool. But he was less then that. A hammer doesn't have personality, but it have a purpose, it is used for something. It has some meaning, it may help you achieve something. Simon and the others before him meant nothing. They were feed with the lie that their expedition could be useful, but it was never about resources. They were just some playthings.

So is the data that was saved by Simon going to be used in some way? Did they even collected this black box? If so, since they already have it, will they use it in some way to help humanity or will they just throw it away?

Even the workers like Ava thinks that the data will be useful, but people from higher positions have other plans. And that is the tragedy of the story, the struggle, pain, suffering from the beginning didn't have any point. The humanity already died.

Okay I know that I went very deep with the end, but that is just my interpretation. I really never been on a movie that impressed me that much. Moreover it was one of the first horror movie that I really enjoyed (I'm not including psychological horrors here). I love how Iron Lung is not trying to scare you by jumpscares that you gonna forget anyway, but the atmosphere, tension of action, music and really good writing gives you a real horror.

Of course you don't need to agree with any of this. That is just my "review" (REALLY LONG REVIEW hah). I glad that I had a chance to see this movie. It was totally worth it.

If you make it from the beginning to the end congratulations to you hah. Hope you didn't get bored (you probably got bored but maybe not that much? Hah)