In the walls…” The voice from the radio groaned, and the sound seemed to travel not only through Phillip’s headset but into his bones as well, causing them to ache. “The walls.” A feature length documentary entitled ‘From Below’: a film by Matthias Kispert celebrating the mutual aid projects during COVID-19, and how they are moving forward to help people in the future (the trailer can be viewed here). Julius Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, Verso, 2018. We don’t use below when one thing touches or covers or hides something else; we usually use under instead: I thought it was a brilliantly unique idea to format this novel by going to the past of the SS Arcadia and then the present with explorers to figure out why this weird ship mysteriously vanished. My favorite reading genres are horror, mystery, suspense, and thriller so I immediately started to get into this story as it was unfolding. Unfortunately, things started to get a bit too slow for my taste and drag on for long periods of time while reading.

From Below (2022) [Full Film] – Mutual Aid From Below (2022) [Full Film] – Mutual Aid

I have read many scary stories in my day. I am very familiar with the sentiment of fear both in a tangible, literal sense as well as what the emotion means logically; the way our brains transform within our bodies grasping for coherent rationals to the events transpiring around us. It is the gift of a great writer to provide the reader with an experience of immersion. The beginning of this book saw us meet a cast of characters in the present day as well as view the cataclysmic events leading to the sinking of the Arcadia, through the introspection of Harland, a crew member on the ship in 1928. Arcadia sank about April 1928 and about 90 years after Cove's team try to explore what really happened but this ship is cursed. A true ghost ship. A phantom of the deep, manned by the bodies of the dead.Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic , Beacon Press, 2004. My personal problem was all the technical details made the read more of a "chore" to get through at times. My attention would be on a great scene, only to be derailed by silt moving (for the 500th time), or something else that took me "out of the moment". There was also one part that could have added so much more, if elaborated on, in my opinion.

from below: a reading list with Marcus Rediker History from below: a reading list with Marcus Rediker

Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class showed historian Ruth Mather “a new way of doing history, one which didn’t patronise working people, or subsume them in a narrative of progress, but instead constructed a story about thinking, feeling people with their own ideas about their lives and their own strategies for living them.” The dark deep realms of the ocean, a claustrophobic underwater world - and scene of The SS Arcadia’s final resting place.When it comes to the later chapters up to the end, I wasn’t a fan of how they abruptly ended right when good stuff happened. It was very frustrating since when it happened and brought a little bit of a spark while reading, I was left hanging until the chapter after next when it returned to that specific timeline. Combine that with the slow pacing of this novel and it’s just something that leaves much to be desired.

Below - Grammar - Cambridge Dictionary

This proved a claustrophobic read with an intriguing cast that kept me engaged throughout. I did wish for a little more depictions of the horrors, at the novel's close, but still feel impressed with all the author did deliver. Dread. In the brief moment he’d touched the metal, he’d felt the danger of the place. This ship wasn’t a gem on the ocean floor, waiting to be found. It was a trap. A monstrous, hideous trap. Unfeeling, unyielding." Don't go merely by my review on this one, because there were a LOT of parts that I truly loved. I think I just wanted a faster pacing, and more of the horror NOT being interrupted by technicalities. Darcy Coates' stories are all different that I've read so far and I'm very impressed with the variety. The premise she chose here was perfect; like space, the sea is another environment rife with fodder for horror elements. Pretty much loved this, and how Coates manages maximum creepiness paired with a feeling that things will generally work out.

Maybe Kiệt simply had no experience with green screen. His breakout hit, Furie, was a very practical martial arts crime story and it could be that he’s moving into untested waters with very little guidance. What I’m saying here is that it’s not necessarily the writer/director’s fault that the effects in the movie look abominable. Just that they do and it’s an enormous distraction.