Reviewed by William Edwards at the 2019 Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n
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The documentary film, \u201cDiving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy, opened at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on it\u2019s opening night and was an enormous hit due to it\u2019s strong empathic testimony from other luminaries, it\u2019s breathtaking cinematography and it\u2019s subject matter: an enormously passionate and competent explorer by the name of Mike deGruy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s narrative was well thought out since it gives all the necessary understanding of the man himself: from his diving backround, the love of the oceans and his fearlessness for exploration. \u00a0We also see a very competent man, perhaps a master in his oeuvre who pushes through not only for a clear search for knowledge, experience and understanding of a domain of our oceanic life but who is clearly politically aware of all the problems that can occur through business interests and poor sewardship.<\/p>\n
This documentary also had the advantage of being told and filed by Mike\u2019s widow, Mimi deGruy who, if anyone, could give us a close perspective into the nature of this fascinating person. \u00a0And it was born out in great detail as to the brilliance and flaws of the man himself. \u00a0What we get is a clear development of a man of such temperament that would make a lasting contribution to the study of oceanography in addition to the flaws of such a person. \u00a0In what I consider a nod to what most people who study gender differences and relationship dynamics something very obvious was very naively presented as one of his glaring flaws.<\/p>\n
Mike probably had some of the greatest assets for attracting a woman: rugged masculinity, ambition, competence, charm and gentleness. \u00a0What I found amusing is that Mimi, like many women do, considered his lack of communication and emotional expressiveness as something of a shock as if she was expecting something of a combination of man and woman – a competent masculine partner and an emotionally expressive man – which hardly ever happens in real life. \u00a0If a man is going full throttle into his career, spending untold weeks out of the year traveling to all parts of the globe and driven to excellence; it\u2019s hardly likely he\u2019s going to be psychologically and emotionally astute at the same time! \u00a0Few men are like that. \u00a0Nevertheless, as many women throughout history are very influential in the work of their husband, we see that here in Mimi – a steadfast wife who dived herself, raised his children and lived a wonderful life with an amazingly talented and driven man who unfortunately come to a tragic end way too soon. \u00a0A must see documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reviewed by William Edwards at the 2019 Santa Barbara Film Festival. The documentary film, \u201cDiving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy, opened at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on it\u2019s opening night and was an enormous hit due to it\u2019s strong empathic testimony from other luminaries, it\u2019s breathtaking cinematography and it\u2019s subject matter: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44000,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43703\/revisions\/44000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}