Review of Breath (2017) by Ray H — 05 May 2018

Frankly, I wanted to like Breath a lot more than I ultimately did. It has many aspects I like in a film on the surface, but the main characters aren't allowed a lot of fleshing out. It's almost as though it's assumed the viewer has read the book (which I haven't).

The surfing scenes are spectacularly shot, the young unknown leads are solid but there's a lot of holes that aren't filled in. Why were Pikelet's parents so passive as their son repeatedly took off with a stranger at the crack of dawn? What was it that made him so afraid? (A large theme is overcoming fears) There are other spoilery questions, There was a good film in Breath, it's obvious from what does come across on screen, but it didn't pack any of the emotional depth it should have.