“I want you to know I’m gonna fight,” Nancy promises, and so her survival becomes a methodical thing, a series of tasks, like any good medical student could handle.įirst is suturing her wound, which Nancy does with her earrings and her necklace. Rapidly losing blood, with an injured foot thanks to coral on the rocks and a battered body from the wave, Nancy can’t survive that long, can she? But this Texan isn’t one to give up, and when thinking about her mother, she vows to give everything she has against the shark. While Nancy tries to surf away from the feeding ground, the shark launches through the wave to her, taking a chunk out of her left thigh and severing her surf board.Įven though Nancy is able to escape and swim to a grouping of rocks jutting out of the water, it seems like she’s a goner. The gigantic, bloody bites taken out of it can mean only thing, and that thing is a shark, and that shark is coming for Nancy. It doesn’t stay paradise for long, though! Because on a beautiful morning, when paddling out for some waves, Adams comes across the decaying body of a whale. She doesn’t know the name of the place, but she remembers her mother talking about it, and when she gets there, she agrees with a couple of locals that the place is “paradise.” Desperate to get away and have some time to herself, without the pressures of her studies or her family’s grief, Adams travels to a secluded beach in Mexico. The setup is simple: Medical student Nancy Adams (Blake Lively, of “The Age of Adaline”) is still reeling after her mother’s death. This barebones summer thriller is all about our central girl and our central shark, and the movie’s willingness to stick to that-to go all-in on this bloody survival tale-is what gives it such gripping effect.
“The Shallows” could have been renamed “Girl vs.
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