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On its face, Underwater is a very typical disaster movie about hope. At the beginning of the movie, KStew has given into despair and has become depressed and directionless after her fiancee's death. By the end of the movie, her crewmates' struggles and sacrifices have rekindled her spirit and she has the hope to defeat the personification of Death at the bottom of the sea. BUT, the very end of the movie calls that all into question. The newspaper clippings state that the Tian Corporation is just going rebuild, implying that the whole affair will just repeat itself. KStew's rekindled hope, then, just continues a cycle as the movie ends essentially as it starts, with newspaper clippings describing a disaster and then efforts to rebuild. Is the movie trying to argue that the inspiration to rebuild after a disaster only provokes further disasters? That would give the movie an effective punchline, but is that enough to make the rest of the movie less trite?
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