DARK WATER
August 24th 2006
last week, i watched Dark Water, not to be confused with Dark Water, or Dark Water, better known as "the Pirates of Dark Water." Dark Water, the one i watched last week, was ok. better than Pulse, at least. a lot of people seem to want to sing its praise, but i think i won't, and instead i'll offer a summary.
After rescuing her brother Toby from the Goblin King and overcoming heroin addiction, Jennifer Connelly settles into a normal modern life, which means she has a disfunctional (dis-functional, not dYsfunctional) relationship with her husband, and the two are in the midst of divorce, fighting somewhat over custody of their daughter. The separation causes a lack of funds for both parties, and so Jennifer and her daughter move into a clearly terrible run down apartment because the daughter finds a Hello Kitty backpack on the roof next to a creepy old water tower thing, which is a ridiculous bit of foreshadowing. in fact, it's probably not even foreshadowing... really, they're just telling you exactly what's going to happen here.
The rest of the movie goes as follows: there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. only the little girl sees her. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. Jennifer goes crazy, or does she? there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. there's a ghost. THERE'S A GHOST.
then, Jennifer finds the body of a drowned russian girl in the water tower where the backpack was found, the ghost manifests again and tries to kill Jennifer's daughter, but then kills Jennifer instead when she agrees to be dead girl's ghost mommy forever. so the daughter is saved and goes to live with her lame dad, and ghost-mommy braids her living daughter's hair one last time before returning to her crappy, but rent free, fate.
speaking of Hello Kitty, this is awesome. go look at that instead of watching Dark Water
