"I don’t know what’s scarier: seeing the sharks, or not seeing them."  This is a direct quote from Open Water, a critically acclaimed independent film written, directed, and edited by aspiring filmmaker Chris Kentis. Open Water is vastly becoming the most talked about movie of the year, and it doesn’t fail in deliverance to sustain a constant fear of segregation. Open Water is just as scary as it is clever, exploiting a formulaic routine of isolation and realistic monsters of the natural world in a final showdown of humans versus Mother Nature. Daniel (Daniel Travis) and his conscientious wife Susan (Blanchard Ryan) decide to take a vacation from all of the stressful things in their lives. On a scuba diving trip in the middle of the ocean, the couple is accidentally left behind after an unfortunate miscalculation of the number of passengers on the boat. Alone, scared, and cold, the two must use their companionship and wits as meanings of survival, for their fate rests in the hands of their own intelligence. That’s when the sharks appear… Open Water is shot on digital video, which provides the film a realism that the audience is there with the two at sea. This also ...