It is easy to find technical faults with this film. No one knew when Tracy started this journey that it would end the way it did and that along the way there would be heart stopping moments, and a fantastic story. So the movie was stitched together, after the fact, with old technology family movies, hand held video shot by the crew under challenging situations, some news clips, etc. No professional camera crew alongside the boat, no second shots, no time for set ups or make up. Just gritty segments of tough sailing conditions with a crew and captain coming through.
The cuts from knife edge moments to studio segments of talking heads of the crew and their recollections/ comment on those situations only served to remind us how different the world is that we inhabit, in the theater to that on the killer ocean.
It was only about 30 years ago but it seems eons since people thought girls could not possibly do big things.
Thank god we have moved on. After watching the womens' world cup this nicely bookends the era of male chauvinism.
I have three daughters. I want them to see this...
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