By Katie Walsh
Tribune News Service
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Columnist Katie Walsh gives high marks for new movie “Adrift” saying, “So often female characters are relegated to worried wives and mothers waiting for a call, so it’s downright refreshing to witness the depiction of a woman as independently strong, capable and determined to survive.”
Tribune News Service
It’s so rare to see a woman at the center of a survival story.
That’s what grabs you right away in “Adrift,” starring Shailene Woodley as Tami Oldham, based on Oldham’s incredible life story.
Right away, we’re thrown below deck in the aftermath of a brutal Pacific Ocean storm as Tami comes to in a sinking yacht, bleeding from a head injury, struggling to survive.
So often female characters are relegated to worried wives and mothers waiting for a call, so it’s downright refreshing to witness the depiction of a woman as independently strong, capable and determined to survive.
Of course, because this is a Hollywood movie, there’s a love story incorporated into this female “All Is Lost,” but it was a love story in real life, too.
As soon as Tami realizes her whereabouts, she starts shouting for her partner, her captain and lover, Richard (Sam Claflin).
As she discovers his safety line dangling loose, she wails in grief and agony, and the film takes us back to an earlier time, when Tami landed in Tahiti.
