‘Deeper’ Review: Jennifer Peedom’s Doc Offers A Surprising Coda To 2018’s Thai Cave Rescue
deadline.comIn June of 2018, The Wild Boars, a teenage Thai football team, went into the labyrinthine caves of Tham Luang on a team-building exercise, as they had apparently done several times before.
It was supposed to take an hour or so, as it usually did. This time, though, it rained, flooding the caves, and the rain didn’t stop until all 12 players and their coach were royally stranded.
The next 18 days kept the world on tenterhooks, and the astonishing outcome fueled a whole host of documentaries plus a Ron Howard Netflix drama, Thirteen Lives, starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton.
In an unusually inoffensive stroke of Hollywood hero-casting, Edgerton played Richard “Harry” Harris, the Australian anesthetist and cave diver who risked his professional reputation and possibly his lifelong freedom by suggesting a strategy of putting all the boys into a chemically induced kind of coma so they could be carried out by experienced divers.
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