Is this some elaborate prank?

I watched this movie and I can quite certainly say it is one of the worst movies I have seen. I mean, the ending of her drowning herself, in retrospect, is pretty intriguing, but other than that I felt like I was just waiting for some kind of plot or even character development to happen.

I can forgive the bad lighting/sound/acting because it was an independent film and had a very low budget, but I can't forgive the script and the direction. There is just nothing to this movie.

But, getting to my confusion. I am honestly wondering if people on this board are just messing with me. And I mean the people who keep saying over and over it's for people who are smart, patient, people who think, etc. And I don't understand that one bit.

What about this movie makes you think? I've read people saying that it makes you think about the idea of being lost at sea. To me, that's ridiculous. There is hardly any emotion in the script/direction/acting while they're stranded until Daniel starts yelling, and then that just turns to them bickering and hashing up old fights, which seems unrealistic to me. It could be how some people would act, but for me it just didn't seem convincing.

And, of course, the other emotion turns up in, oh, the last ten-fifteen minutes when Daniel gets killed and Susan is left by herself. But, I gotta say, for a couple moments I thought the Susan-letting-Daniel-go bit raw and it actually struck a nerve with me, but then it disappeared into being overly drawn out to the point where I wasn't even sure if that was what was happening.

So, without the conviction and emotion behind this movie, I don't see how it can make people really think and feel how it would be to get stranded at sea. To me, it's the equivalent of reading a fairly detached article about what may happen if one got lost at sea. This movie just doesn't do it for me at all. Walking away from this movie is one of the very few times that I've walked away and actually felt angry and insulted, like the man who made this movie was trying to make me suffer.

I like weird, slow movies that are trying to imitate the grittiness of real life as well as movies that make me think and leave me pondering. I also know I am a smart person.

So, please, can someone tell me how this movie is at all good? How does it make one think? How do you have to use your brain in order to fully appreciate this film? Because I am at a total loss- to the point where I think the people who are actually applauding this movie are pulling some kind of sick prank.