Request for spoilers

[eurydicebound]

So I keep seeing ads for the movie Dark Water. As God is my witness, I will never, ever watch this film. Not in a million years. Not even with the love I bear for almost everything Jennifer Connelly is in. Not even given that it has Dougray Scott (fun to look at), Tim Roth (excellent actor), and Pete Postlethwaite (an acting god) in it. I am so very, very bad at tolerating horror films that it's just not going to happen, which is a shame. That said, better to miss one good film than live in fear of every spigot in my house for a month or so. Ugh.

Given my limitations, I still really, really want to know what the story is. I want to know the ending and all. I just don't want to watch the damned thing to find it out. Can anyone be a love and spoil the hell out of it for me? I'd truly appreciate it. Thanks.

Comments

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

Following up...

What impressed me most about the resolution was its appreciation for life with all its flaws. Connelly's character loves her daughter, but she's neurotic (with flashbacks showing some of how that developed). Her ex-husband loves the daughter too, but he's kind of a flake, and obviously in that stage where every flaw of the other person gets magnified disproportionately. New York life is weird and often ugly and there's no glamour in any of this. But even with her flaws, it looks like Connelly will be a good mother to the dead girl, and her epiphany while she's trying to save her live daughter is that there's still good in the living world for her daughter - not that it will be perfect, but that there will be enough for her to have a chance to grow up well. It's very humane about this.

[pgoodman13.livejournal.com]

And now, unlike Michelle, I might have to go pick this up one of these days. I had tended to avoid it because the ad campaign made it look like one of the worst hack jobs since the damn of time. Now it sounds like something genuinely worth watching. Thanks for the basic synopsis, and the analysis.