The Descent

Movie Analysis:::

The Descent

The movie, The Descent is about a group of close friends (who all happen to be women), who reunite about a year after an accident kills one of their close friends, to go cave exploring together. As their adventures begin, unforeseen personalities begin to show.

At the beginning of the movie, the best friends laugh and converse together as they catch up on each other’s lives. Relationships are illustrated and it’s apparent that they all have different backgrounds and lifestyles but share lifelong bonds and common interests.

As the women reach the cave they all seem to leave their stereotypical lifestyles portrayed during the opening scenes of the movie to become highly ambitious, adventurous, and devious. As they make their way into the depths of the cave a passage through which they had just passed through collapses behind them only able to move forward to find a new way out. The leader of the trip, Juno, at this point decides to tell the group that not only is it an unexplored cave. As the tensions begin to grow higher some of the women start to bring up past issues, and who they truly are outside of the adventure cave walls begin to show. The women, move forward, and as they progress they become frustrated and some of them begin to turn on and killing the others. Juno, the leader who’s seems now to be in it solely for herself, ends up dead.

Similar to Seduction and Betrayal in the Heartland, this movie shows a few different sides. I think this movie also does a good job going against stereotypical women roles. One imparticular is the outdoorsy adventure in itself.