Excellent - I got Breathe today from iTunes, having pre-ordered it last week. So, a quick review:
This is a well-made, well-shot biographic documentary. William Trubridge is a natural interview subject and you rarely hear the interviewers voice. They go through some of the basics of freediving training in general, a brief summary of his journey to and with freediving and the film peaks with his 2010 100m attempt (spoiler alert - he makes it).
I enjoyed almost all of it, and it presented the sport in a mostly positive light. All of the subjects interviewed are great on camera and natural choices for the final cut and it's very easy to watch. I'd venture to say that if I saw this as a teenager I'd probably start freediving (if I was vaguely interested in swimming, diving etc).
My few complaints were the attempts to introduce intense dramatic elements into this - the first several minutes of interviews with local Bahamians who never go near the hole, the dramatic zooms on the face of his wife when they're talking about his potential death while performing a dive. (And the bizarrely suspenseful music over the final credits that make it feel like there's an explosion around the corner...)
But I enjoyed it! And I'm sure I'll be showing it to my friends who ask about freediving, but I'll probably skip through the first ten minutes and go straight to the action.
Enjoy!
This is a well-made, well-shot biographic documentary. William Trubridge is a natural interview subject and you rarely hear the interviewers voice. They go through some of the basics of freediving training in general, a brief summary of his journey to and with freediving and the film peaks with his 2010 100m attempt (spoiler alert - he makes it).
I enjoyed almost all of it, and it presented the sport in a mostly positive light. All of the subjects interviewed are great on camera and natural choices for the final cut and it's very easy to watch. I'd venture to say that if I saw this as a teenager I'd probably start freediving (if I was vaguely interested in swimming, diving etc).
My few complaints were the attempts to introduce intense dramatic elements into this - the first several minutes of interviews with local Bahamians who never go near the hole, the dramatic zooms on the face of his wife when they're talking about his potential death while performing a dive. (And the bizarrely suspenseful music over the final credits that make it feel like there's an explosion around the corner...)
But I enjoyed it! And I'm sure I'll be showing it to my friends who ask about freediving, but I'll probably skip through the first ten minutes and go straight to the action.
Enjoy!