What the F did you just watch? Well, it's a decent indie drama about an impossible relationship.
The couple goes to a long sailing trip, but the woman wants them to have a break from sailing and beach an island, appropriately named "the Island of Despair". The man, locked on his dream holiday and empowered by his father's advice, refuses and insists on continuing. This is an age old root of problems. Typically men are goal oriented ("I'll can feel free after I have accomplished this one thing first") while often women want to feel alive and be present all the time.
Anyway, the woman strongly resists the man's attempt to lead, to be the captain, and secretly takes a dinghy and goes on the island alone. This alarms the man, and shakes the pedestal he is standing on, and after a while, as an ultimate way to please the woman he sends the boat drifting locking both of them on the island.
There are many flashbacks, and some dream like sequences, which kind of make sense if you think about their desperate situation. Besides, the man drinks, and the woman smokes weed. This leaves much open, to freely interpret. I got an idea that the man is a slave to his woman (in a needy way), and the woman is a slave to her weed. The boat becomes important to her again only after she runs out of weed, and is terrified to learn that the boat is now gone.
The final image of simple and natural caveman life can be thought as something as happens to them with time, or maybe it's a metaphora of the life they are unknowingly searching, or perhaps it's some kind of a fantasy.
"Get away if you can", that's probably a sound advice. Ed Harris comes out as a woman hater, but, he could be right about real prospects of his son's relationship. It's unlikely they would ever be happy - or even content - with each other.
I liked the parts which were shot on the boat. The makers clearly understand how sailing is like. Because of this I kind of missed sailing but not really. For me this film was very clever and pleasant to watch.
The couple goes to a long sailing trip, but the woman wants them to have a break from sailing and beach an island, appropriately named "the Island of Despair". The man, locked on his dream holiday and empowered by his father's advice, refuses and insists on continuing. This is an age old root of problems. Typically men are goal oriented ("I'll can feel free after I have accomplished this one thing first") while often women want to feel alive and be present all the time.
Anyway, the woman strongly resists the man's attempt to lead, to be the captain, and secretly takes a dinghy and goes on the island alone. This alarms the man, and shakes the pedestal he is standing on, and after a while, as an ultimate way to please the woman he sends the boat drifting locking both of them on the island.
There are many flashbacks, and some dream like sequences, which kind of make sense if you think about their desperate situation. Besides, the man drinks, and the woman smokes weed. This leaves much open, to freely interpret. I got an idea that the man is a slave to his woman (in a needy way), and the woman is a slave to her weed. The boat becomes important to her again only after she runs out of weed, and is terrified to learn that the boat is now gone.
The final image of simple and natural caveman life can be thought as something as happens to them with time, or maybe it's a metaphora of the life they are unknowingly searching, or perhaps it's some kind of a fantasy.
"Get away if you can", that's probably a sound advice. Ed Harris comes out as a woman hater, but, he could be right about real prospects of his son's relationship. It's unlikely they would ever be happy - or even content - with each other.
I liked the parts which were shot on the boat. The makers clearly understand how sailing is like. Because of this I kind of missed sailing but not really. For me this film was very clever and pleasant to watch.