She can't swim?!?!?!
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wonderwall4176 — 14 years ago(April 13, 2011 06:49 PM)
You may be the only person on this board to concede to an argument. I'm impressed, really. I was planning on posting an answer to you initial post, but kept reading the replies and was pretty impressed by this. I wish more people could be open to alternative perspectives on here.
And yeah, when Costner's character discovers the girl cannot swim, he finds it very strange. She tells him the people thought she was a freak and he responds by saying "maybe they were right". She replies back with "maybe they were right about you too". It was that moment where he bonded with her, even before he taught her how to swim.
I agree, this is not a classic film, but I think it's one of my favorites from '95. -
actionmanrandell — 11 years ago(July 22, 2014 12:10 AM)
you clearly have never watched the movie if you believe she spent most of her life on dry land.
she was born there but they put her on a raft when she was a baby
or atleast very very young because she has no memory of dry land -
Al_and_Smithy — 16 years ago(April 25, 2009 12:59 PM)
So, there are people who live on dry and can't go outside. There are people who live where there are lots of roads, and can't drive. I've had friends who owned boats and were deathly afraid of the water. Can't there be 1 person in all of the population who can't swim?
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MrDrWatson — 16 years ago(July 27, 2009 03:55 PM)
There could be so many reasons for someone not to learn how to swimhere's an example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaphobia ,even if they live in a waterworld.
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dave_ooo5 — 16 years ago(September 05, 2009 08:27 PM)
Dryland is the Himalayas. Highest region on earth now, so you flood the planet to the extent shown in this movie, and this still pokes out above the water.
She can't swim?!?! .. of course, nobody taught her, we are not born with that ability. This film has enough plot holes without having to pick on these two work harder, peeps! -
TechnoTom — 15 years ago(June 30, 2010 02:13 AM)
It's a bit dangerous to be walking around in a world totally covered in water if you can't, isn't it? Fair enough, there are people who can't drive or swim in our world with cars and water in it, but if there was NO land at all, I think your outlook on having to swim would change. You don't HAVE to swim in today's society, but you definitely have to in the Water World universe - there IS no alternative!
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woofagooba — 16 years ago(September 12, 2009 11:17 PM)
Just to add, if you go back in time when our world was mainly explored by men on ships most of them could not swim. Realistically this story has plenty of holes in it, but I don't find the swimming issue to be one of the biggies. Like many (most even) sci-fi/fantasy if you analyze the story it is full of issues and to enjoy it you have to refrain from do that. Logic is a rarity in fantasy.
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BbaySMH — 16 years ago(October 03, 2009 08:58 PM)
Polar ice caps covering the world never seems to bother anyone (haven't we already melted half of it and not much has happened? plus think back/watch again/etcis this mentioned in the movie EVER or is everyone thinking of the movie's trailer which was done by PR execs at Universal) but everyone's so damn concerned about what dryland is (Mt. Everest), where the smokers get the cigarettes (they were on the boat when they found it, note they have at least HUNDREDS of old boxes, each containing likely about 50 cartons each, in the back ground of almost every shot on the boat), and why Enola can't swim.
Someone mentioned how they would be fishing and all thatshe's a child. Why would SHE be doing that? It's made pretty clear in the theatrical cut that she was an infant or young child (she's only 10 in the movie) when she was on Dryland, hence the vague memories of trees, horses, birds, etc and why she can't really remember them. The director's cut also says she was an infant in a basket floating in the water. Apparently everyone else that saw this movie has a photographic memory from the second they were born. The rest of have a tad bit of trouble remember major events prior to 2 or 3 years old or so (maybe even 4 or 5). And call me crazy, but who's teachin a infant/small child how to swim? Most people don't learn to swim at like 12 months old. Plus if she can't remember exactly what a tree or horse it, but has vague memories & dreams of them, why would she remember if she ever learned? Hell, I've lived on Cape Cod for 26 years, surrounded by endless beaches, and I have no idea how to swim. I go in the deep end of a pool, I may stay afloat for several seconds kicking wildly until I sink to the bottom, and make a long, slow walk to the shallow end before I run out of air. Plus she's from Dryland and lived in the floating Atola-thing since Helen found her. What possesses anyone to think that living there means she HAS TO go for a daily swim each day is beyond me. None of the people living there appear to just go on daily swims. I mean call me crazy, but swimming + getting wet = everyone wouldn't be covered in about 3 inches of dirt & grime. Swimming? They don't even appear to bathe! Not to mention the bloodthirsty, mutated giant sea creatures. You know, the ones Helen is so afraid of when Enola goes in the water. Obviously the idea of recreational swimming in monster infested waters doesn't seem to be too high a priority on anyone's list in Waterworld.
Now just kick back and wait for someone to complain about plot holes involving the impossibilities of turning your piss into drinkable water, and we can start the conversation all over again. (We've been doing in space, boats, some islands for how many generations? Yes, it's very, very real). -
doearchive — 15 years ago(June 24, 2010 04:46 PM)
The Aran Islanders, residents of a series of islands off the west coast of Ireland, whose main occupation was fishing in the Atlantic Ocean from small canvas covered rowing boats, would traditionally never learn to swim, because they believed in the event of a boat sinking, it merely prolonged the agony. Their fatalism gave rise to the famous Aran sweaters, each family having a distinctive weave, so that decomposed bodies washed to shore could be identified.
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uruseiranma — 15 years ago(June 17, 2010 09:02 AM)
What confused me was when they get to the house where her parent's bodies are, she simply says, 'I'm home,' goes over, and opens a music box. Just the way she said it, she sounded like she's known about all this foreverbut why wouldn't she tell anyone about it? The whole storyline about her in general just makes me want some answers.
"I've been shrunk, stretched, and stuffed into a teapot" - Alice