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The Shallows (2016)
★ 6.4 · 5,312 ratings on TMDB
What was once in the deep is now in the shallows.
While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
DirectorJaume Collet-Serra
The emergence reading
The Shallows keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
