MovieChat Forums > Open Water 2: Adrift (2006) Discussion > Dan and Amy didnt make it

Dan and Amy didnt make it

posted 13 years ago by boromeo55
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Here's why

I am surprised that no one in the long thread about the ending seems to have noticed that when Amy dives there was a sea storm. Do you really think that a woman (or a man) would survive that ? even if she was not far from the boat. (nature is way stronger than a man or woman)
plus bringing a man heavier than her and dead? and don't tell me that Dan was still alive we see him clearly dead going to the bottom, and earlier she said that she almost couldn't feel her legs (water becoming colder with time)

She was a ghost , but i don't think Dan was there lying , it was her spirit mind that put him there to remind her she took the wrong decision between saving Dan or stay with her baby and that forever , like her own hell, condemned to wander on the ship forever.

The baby was crying and turned his arms on the right and the left trying to reach someone but there was no one to reach to . no one was there and the shots made it clear there was no one on the deck, there was even an aerial shot of the boat and suddenly the screen goes white (limbo) and suddenly we see Amy and Dan on the deck (like i said Dan isn't really there reason above)

Some have said that she must be a blind and deaf ghost cause she didn't notice there was another boat around but there's plenty of ghost stories (real or not) when the ghost doesn't seem to notice anyone or anything around

Plus this film is based on a novel by a Japanese writer and guess what , yeah it's a ghost story . Amen

[–] IamGod333 12 years ago

Goddamn!!!!!! Thanks, you are the only one I believe about the ending!!!!!!!!!! I was depressed trying to find the answer!!!! Thanks

[–] boromeo55 12 years ago

Glad you liked my explanation about the ending IamGod333 :) and glad also that you could understand my english too lol (I'm a french canadian )

[–] Zando777 12 years ago

Um, why couldn't she survive a sea storm? All that means is that rain is falling down, and there's some waves. It doesn't mean giant whirlpools magically appear, sucking everyone to the bottom.

She had a livesaving ring a few feet away. A ladder thingy not much further away. She could've easily gotten back up. Getting Dan up would've been tougher, but not if he were still concious.

(It may have just been her dad going to the bottom there.)

Ultimately, the ending is simply very ambiguous. Which sucks.

[–] j_ess 12 years ago

When that captain of the fishing boat was looking down and floating around at the yacht the ladder was down and shown from his view point along with the life survivor ring tied to the yacht.

Showing it from his view point made me think she did survive but like all of you it still leaves doubt in our minds.

[–] caroline-phelan 10 years ago

Exactly! And I want to know why she'd risk her life trying to save someone who threw her into the water in the first place. Wasn't her mother's love stronger?

[–] FrauMachina 12 years ago

Exactly my thoughts too since the old man in the boat circling the yacht didn't see a single soul, yet she was seemingly standing there.

But did the baby survive though?

[–] boromeo55 11 years ago

The skipper probably took the baby with him on his boat :) So I would say yes

[–] cruzeh2002 10 years ago

But the baby was crying when the man in the boat passed by. If the baby was crying, then Amy would have been attending to her and not have been seen since she was down there with the baby.

[–] faithdwnsouth 10 years ago

In the final scene, on the upper deck, in slow motion, a quiet Amy stands looking around; she looks at Dan, who is lying face down on the deck (it is unclear if he is still alive). While the ending caused some confusion among viewers, the film's director has indicated that five out of the six adults die, and Lauren just drifted to an unknown island.

Some versions of the movie had captions at the end which tell viewers that Dan, Amy, and the baby survived, but that Dan and Amy never see each other again.

Hope that helps you. Personally I think both of the above endings suck. The better ending would have been Amy and the baby surviving or just the baby surviving.

[–] dillonfries 10 years ago

I was going to add that it was as if that last scene was thrown in there as an alternate ending which they survive. Edit it out and the film implies that they did not.

Very good film though. I was waiting for sharks, but using the title Open Water 2 made this work even better. Cameron Richardson is hot as hell. I remember her from something... must have been Entourage.

[–] dillonfries 10 years ago

Also, it's tough to execute films like this that take place all in one scene (or almost). Give the director credit... like to see more of his work.

[–] fulcisbeard 10 years ago

The way I took the ending was that Amy died, but that's only because the baby was down below deck crying, and I can't imagine Amy just standing on the deck with a blank expression on her face while her baby lies below bawling her eyes out...

[–] dgar1948 9 years ago

It looked to me like she didn't possess very strong maternal instincts when they were needed the most. She chose to try and rescue the guy that started the whole thing to begin with, becuase of his stupidity, leaving her baby behind. The baby crying got to me and I just wonder if she survived. The ending was a little confusing. Was she dead already, did the man in the other boat rescue the baby???????

[–] Planet-38 9 years ago

After viewing this for the second time, I agree that Amy & Dan must have drowned. Why? Remember how miserable Amy was when she was in the water and her baby was crying? I can't see her standing on the deck unresponsive while the baby cried like that. She could have been catatonic, but the view from the other boat shows no one on the deck. Plus the captain doesn't appear to see anyone on the deck. And, when he is looking, you can hear the baby crying, but when the shot goes to Amy standing there, no crying.

It is even possible that there was no rescue attempt, because Amy never made it back on the boat in the first place. No climbing on top of Dan; it was all just her or Dan's dying hallucination.

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[–] LordManhammer 8 years ago

It looked to me like she didn't possess very strong maternal instincts when they were needed the most.

I don't think you're being fair here. She made a decision to save a person's life, thinking she'd live through it and wouldn't orphan her child. Can't say she doesn't have maternal instincts just because she thought it important to try to rescue an old friend from dying.

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[–] bing-57 9 years ago

> I can't imagine Amy just standing on the deck with a blank expression on her face while her baby lies below bawling her eyes out...

Babies cry all the time and there is rarely a need to tend to them immediately. The baby was just hungry or lonely.

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[–] blazegarrett91 9 years ago

I'm inclined to agree with you. One crucial thing that I can't quite remember is if the baby is crying during the final shot. Either way, I tend to interpret it as both being dead. The only difference for me is that I think both are there, and NOT there at the same time. The baby was the only one that survived. Out of all her friends and even her husband, Dan was "there" because she failed to save him. There was nothing she could do about the others, but she had a chance to save Dan and she failed. So she'll have to see his dead body forever, knowing that she failed to save his life. And she'll have to hear her baby crying for all eternity, knowing that she left her child behind. Just my interpretation, but I definitely agree with your prognosis

[–] macguffin54 9 years ago

You know, I was surprised by how good this movie was, judging by its rating here. And if they had done the movie right, ending it with her finally overcoming her traumatic past and doing what she was unable to do before (save a drowning man) and rescuing that guy (Dan?), this would have been pretty top notch (I mean, it was fairly uneventful and lacked really dramatic moments once they got in the water-- no sharks, no real suspense, since they had no real chance of climbing back into the boat until the end. But it was also realistic, not melodramatic and fairly well-paced.)

I do have some issues, though -- that muscular guy trying to climb up the flag and (the same guy?) climbing up the bathing suit rope (the lightest person should have climbed, duh!) And if only they had used the knife to climb up the boat, the same way that guy used the broken goggles (and plastic goggles would never had pierced the hull of the ship). I don't have a problem with her jumping in to save that guy, though. It was the right thing to do, being that there shouldn't have been any real risk of dying with the ladder and life preserver ring down (though she should have put on a life-preserver jacket first, duh!) and the guy not being too far away. Of course, I never would have left him in the first place to tend to my baby. If the baby was well enough to cry it could had lasted literally another minute to make sure that guy had made his way on board.

[–] Misko195 9 years ago

This is based on a true event. If they didn't make, who would tell the story??

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[–] ExTechOp (2770) 4 years ago

But it's totally not based on a true event. They lied about that. It's inspired by a short story that itself was based on a true event but is HEAVILY fictionalized, includes supernatural elements, and in any case is REALLY different from this film.

[–] yvesyves (689) 4 years ago

Dan the captain is rather muscular and most importantly has a big tatoo on his left arm which we see clearly several times.

the guy at the end clearly has no tatoo and less importantly also is much smaller than Dan, the tatoo thing is very obvious.

I guess it's her husband and she is a ghost regretting jumping in to save Dan because she drowned.