She can't swim?!?!?!
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mizhou-99-68324 — 13 years ago(July 31, 2012 11:41 PM)
no matter what world you live in, you can't stay in water forever. you are gonna have to do most of your essential living activities on land (or boat). if there's no land you die anyway. if there is land, then swimming becomes a mere contingency plan, not something you can't live without. you can't live without food. you can't live without drinking water. you can't live if you can't retain your body temperature. you can't live if you can neither outrun nor fend off your predators. those are the things that require immediate attention, not swimming skills.
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deatman9 — 14 years ago(July 24, 2011 08:18 PM)
umm actullay no she is from dry land why do you think she has the map on her back. She was born on dry land and persumeably lived there with her parents for awhile. If you pay attention in the end it mentions this. Please pay attention to movies before you post the wrong idea thank you
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fivestarmichael — 16 years ago(April 25, 2009 10:17 PM)
TtankerT has a point books are everywhere and some adults can't read. Cars are everywhere and some adults don't know how to drive. There are basketball courts everywhere but I sure as hell can't play basketball.
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hfctorch — 14 years ago(August 12, 2011 09:44 AM)
All I can do is doggy paddle my parents never took me for swimming lessons. I grew up on Long Island, NY. With pleanty of beaches almost drowned a few times at the beach. Plus it was obvious in the film she was brought up on dry land with her tattoo of a map to dry land. Kind of the main point of the film.. which I guess you missed and is why everyone wants her. Also most people in this movie chill out on boats the ones who go diving under water in search of teasures of sorts, I doubt are like 8-10 years old
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sdlewis-3 — 17 years ago(January 04, 2009 10:29 PM)
It's supposed to be at least Mount Everest. You can see this in the movie (maybe just the extended cut?) when the Mariner is leaving DryLand and the woman and the girl run onto the top of the island to watch him drift away. There's a little plaque at their feet that says Mount Everest or something.
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mach_10 — 17 years ago(January 12, 2009 01:52 AM)
The little orphan girl Enola was born on "dryland", what was once the peak of Mount Everest. She was raised there by her parents, but for unknown reasons, Enola's parents died. As did the entire human culture on "dryland". Perhaps a plague killed them off, because Old Gregor states "they knew they were dying", and that is why they sent Enola off to live on the atoll.
The point is, Enola has spent very little of her life at sea.
That is the contrast between the Mariner and Enola: he is a quiet, solitary individual who feels at home at sea, and is even suited to it. Enola, on the other hand, is an inquisitive, talkative young girl who hates life out at sea and
has spent most of her life on "dryland"
. A consequence of this is that she doesn't know how to swim. The two characters are polar opposites of each other. It was one of the main sub-texts of the film.
This also sets up a nice bit of character development for the Mariner, who is shocked by Enola's inability to swim, and the two bond as he teaches her. -
brianh-7 — 16 years ago(April 25, 2009 02:22 PM)
I concede. Obviously I didn't pay close enough attention or give the movie enough time before I gave up. While I doubt it's the masterpiece that some other threads claim, neither is it the stinker that I had assumed.
(And just to be clear, no I'm not being sarcastic and yes I admit being wrong. For readers of the imdb boards, you know this is a rare day indeed.)