
Diva

Skill, beauty, personality, ‘Diving Diva’ Lee-young has it all. Not being able to be with her best friend Su-jin is the only thing that gets in her way. Just so she can help Su-jin out, she changes her event to synchronizing swimming. While pouring everything to Olympics selection practice, Su-jin and Lee-young are involved in a freak accident. Su-jin disappears without a trace, while Lee-young survives but loses her memory. Lee-young’s memory slowly comes back to her but remembers strange side of Su-jin. Her iron will begins to shake on the diving board.
Phenomenal film with a unique cinematography atmospheric psychological thrill, focusing on the consequences of PTSD in the minds of those who suffered from impactful stressed events. Here is when the movie goes with that theme and expresses it with a compelling story using scenarios of the many symptoms this particular character is going through as she is being exposed by her own trauma that led her behaving in such manner. The overall great structural exposition with different collage scenes, where well puzzled together to convey that symptomatic behavior of her, which were the key to a great introduction to the characters and more so the finally we got, making it feel so inclusive and personal that all felt claustrophobic. Great film.