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Message: [QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 3588025, member: 7894"] I'd been mildly curious about "Red Knot" a while ago, but never got around to it. Most of my interest is because it stars Olivia Thirlby, and also because it's mostly shot in and around Antarctica. It's short at 1:20, the scenery is amazing, so I don't regret watching it. Probably once is more than enough though. Yet another ambiguous indie. If a detail isn't important enough to tell the audience one way or the other (was Thirlby's character pregnant or just seasick; did she and her husband die in the end?), maybe the director doesn't need to hint at it? It's getting to be a really tiresome trope to me. It's a slow paced, character driven movie. Almost nothing happens. A newly wed couple is taking an unusual sorta honeymoon on a research vessel from Argentina heading to the Southern Ocean. He's wrapped up in his work, she begins to feel neglected, and their marriage starts to unravel. Many beautiful scenes of icebergs, the ocean, the sky, glaciers, whales, seals, penguins and other seabirds. I'm a big fan of Thirlby, and she was good in this, so I guess I got what I came for. I've never been on a research vessel, or anywhere near Antartica...but I have to think that ships like that have protocols that would prevent people from just wandering off into a vast ice filled wilderness. Call me silly, but I couldn't overlook that. [/QUOTE]