Review of Drown

Drown (I) (2015)
2/10
Sad depressing cautionary tale
10 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
The movie is primarily about three lifeguards who are members of a swim club. The first lifeguard spends the entire movie consumed by a combination of seething rage, jealousy, lust, and low self worth. The second lifeguard is a co-dependent in drug abuse and is so easily influenced that he participates in the kidnapping, sexual abuse, and torture of the third lifeguard. The third lifeguard so desperately wants to be part of the group that he allows himself to be incrementally abused. At one point the third lifeguard suffers facial mutilation but even that isn't enough for him to distance himself from his abuser. The last half of the movie plays like a horror movie as you don't know who is going to be dead at the end.

One good thing about this movie is that it is a cautionary tale about the effects of untreated mental illness and drug abuse.
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