The Wave: Your cure for unrealsitic disaster movies! (A Beckner and Lipscomb ‘Conversational’ movie review) Hello and Welcome to our 13th episode! In this episode we review the 2015 Norwegian catastrophe drama film, The Wave, directed by Roar Uthaug and written by John Kåre Raak and Harald Rosenløw-Eeg.
If you are tired of natural disaster films that make a mockery of real sceince – then The Wave is your cure. This film immagines a future event that will take place in the forseable future – and – one that has actually happened in the past already. The idyllic, Norwegian town of Geiranger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geirang… a famous tourist draw to visitors seeking peace and relaxation among the beautiful lakes and mountains. But one of these lakes holds a deadly secret. In the past, huge landslides from the sourrounding mounstains have fallen down, into its waters and created huge, deadly tsunami-like waves. In real life – there is a crevase that has opned up in one of these mountains again, and it is growing. When it lets go – it will, once again have deadly conseqences. The town knons this – and so they have a team of sceintists who are constantly monitering it. And when they hit the alarm – the town will only have 10 minutues until its complete distruction. We hope that you enjoy this review – and thank you for watching! Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this presentation. We do welcome feedback.
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