Archana Gidwani

In real life, this was such a poignant story - remember being glued to the TV for days. The movie disappointingly is mostly about white divers saving the boys trapped in the cave. It’s almost 60 percent about those 5 people doing mediocre face acting and doing a heroic job - better than even the Thai Navy Seals 🙄. The movie took such a narrow view of the incident and missed an opportunity to show how the Thai culture and the perseverance of the parents of the kids and what happened to the kids and the coach in the cave all played into th story. A cursory coverage of a local Bangkok engineer who led an effort to divert water from The caves ( that team was given very few dialogues) and the anguish of one mom was the only exception to a movie focused on the 5 white divers. Wish that a local Thai Director had made this movie and given us a window to what happened to the locals, the farmers who gave away their fields, to the families of the students and what was happening inside the cave. The research done by Ron Howard’s team appears shallow and failed to tell the story of the Thai characters. If their intent was to show mostly what these 5 divers did then it’s ok- but I was left dissatisfied