The film begins as a friendly weekend outing to the shore involving several married couples and kids sharing a bungalow, then escalates to almost
unbearable tension when one of them — a kindergarten teacher, disappears.
Not exact matches
In addition, this particular nullification has a little extra weight, since North Korea cut off its emergency direct phone line to South Korea — a sort of bat signal one could use to call the other and sort things out
when tensions got
unbearable...
Taking a measured, understated docu - drama approach was clearly the right one (particularly
when placed against Oliver Stone's ill - judged «World Trade Center»)-- it paid true tribute to the heroes of United 93, while still enabling Greengrass to heighten the
tension to almost
unbearable levels (we vividly remember several people fleeing our screening while hyperventilating during its final sections).
And
when he finally does find his girl, played wonderfully by sorely under - utilized young actress Emily Meade, the
tension becomes
unbearable.