Review of The Cave

The fact that I wasn't deeply affected by The Cave and won't think about it much again speaks more to the combination of having already watched For Sama and the fatigue of the death race and school than to a poor job by the filmmakers. As I learned in For Sama, it's upsetting to watch people trying to live and be happy in Syria as the regime attacks innocent people. Amani is amazing, and if one thing works really well in the film, it's the difference one woman made during crisis in Syria. My biggest problem with the film was that it didn't feel human - we don't get to know any of the victims or really even much about the workers, and instead feels more like scene after scene of pain and desperation. Not a bad movie, but I'd recommend watching For Sama and skipping The Cave personally.