Eye For Film >> Movies >> The Shore (2003) Film Review
The Shore appears as a series of rather beautiful still lives - except they are moving, or rather the sea is. The character of the beach, so pristine at first, becomes cluttered with debris, washed up plastic bottles and bags of every description.
The message is a simple one. Rubbish has its own beauty, depending upon how the camera perceives it. The confrontation between art and trash needs not be an aesthetically damaging one. Emma Richards leaves you to decide.
And then suddenly she indulges in a Magnolia moment, except instead of frogs dropping from the sky, it's boys and girls. The shore becomes littered, not with old Coke cans and crisp packets, but dead bodies.
Is this a warning? First, it's garbage desecrating the world and now it's corpses. The tide comes to wash away the detritus. Soon the sea will be clogged with death.
Is beauty an illusion?
Reviewed on: 03 Oct 2003
