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Originally Posted by SubSerpent
My point being that the MOVIE shows you all the sharks from above and all around her. She however, in the water, would not know exactly how many and if they were actually after her. A shark can swim up to 30 knots in the water, a human - perhaps 2 - 3 knots. If the sharks wanted to eat her they would have, but there isn't enough proof that they would have.
Carpe Diem! It means "Seize the day"! In other words take your life into your own hands and don't give up fighting no matter what. She would have shown to be a much stronger character had she gone out kicking and screaming in her final moments with the sharks if they ate her. It would have at least shown that she wanted to live but was given no choice = God's Will!
Yes I agree with you. We all do eventually have to face the fact that we are going someday die but in her case she decided to off herself and not take the chance - the chance to live. Perhaps this was a test for her from God? A test in God's eyes that she failed. Millions of people in this world and throughout time have had to take such test. I believe that each and every single person in this world has a test or a struggle given to them from God. That test is your FAITH, without it in your final moments, you cannot be saved. She abandoned her faith that God would be there for her no matter what. No matter how much pain, no matter how much it scared her, no matter what. She let go of her God's hand (more like slapped it away) and she allowed herself to fall out of his good grace and go to the place where she went. Suicides go to Hell! And she thought the sharks were bad? HuH! She ain't seen nothing yet!
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She even admitted her weakness in the middle of the movie if you remember to her husband by stating, "Oh God, I don't think I could go on without (or if I lost) you". He was obviously her heart and when he died - she died. She was weak for this. She had already made up in her mind to die if he did or wasn't around anymore. She didn't want live life without him so she killed herself (being truely selfish). Same thing happened in the movie "Legend's of the Fall" with Brad Pitt. His character no longer needed or longed to be with Madeline Stowe's character and she could no longer bare it. She too chose to killed herself! WEAK, WEAK, WEAK!!
Also, the male character, though badly bitten by the sharks, wanted to live. He didn't just give up and say the hell with it. He had no choice = God's Will!
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That you are in the water with the beasts is God's will. The beasts are innumberable, and God has placed you in a setting where temporal victory is impossible. Is the surrender to the innevitable not, then, the ultimate compliance with God? Does it not surrender the will of the Self to the will of the Eternal? Is this not what is required of all who believe?
St. Peter gave into the innevitable. St. John the Baptist gave in to the innevitable. Do they burn in Hell? Or did they, perhaps, see victory in the spectre of death? Was their acceptance of fate any different than the female protagonist's?