To watch Waves is to feel it. Long before the credits roll, Trey Edward Shults’s audacious, heart-wrenching drama has seeped into your bones—a cinematic experience less concerned with plot than with pure, unfiltered emotion. It is a film of two halves, two storms, and one family trying not to drown.
Here’s a write-up for WAVES (2019), written in a style suitable for a film review, analysis, or personal reflection. Director: Trey Edward Shults Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Sterling K. Brown, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lucas Hedges waves 2019
★★★★½ (A visceral, symphonic triumph of modern American cinema) To watch Waves is to feel it
Visually, the film is a stunner. Shot in a radical 1.85:1 aspect ratio with shifting color palettes (saturated warmth to cool, clinical clarity), the cinematography (by Drew Daniels) becomes a character in itself. The use of split-screen, slow-motion, and abrupt cuts doesn’t feel showy—it feels necessary, like the chaos of a breaking mind. Here’s a write-up for WAVES (2019), written in
Then comes the second wave: quiet, devastating, and redemptive.
To watch Waves is to feel it. Long before the credits roll, Trey Edward Shults’s audacious, heart-wrenching drama has seeped into your bones—a cinematic experience less concerned with plot than with pure, unfiltered emotion. It is a film of two halves, two storms, and one family trying not to drown.
Here’s a write-up for WAVES (2019), written in a style suitable for a film review, analysis, or personal reflection. Director: Trey Edward Shults Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Sterling K. Brown, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lucas Hedges
★★★★½ (A visceral, symphonic triumph of modern American cinema)
Visually, the film is a stunner. Shot in a radical 1.85:1 aspect ratio with shifting color palettes (saturated warmth to cool, clinical clarity), the cinematography (by Drew Daniels) becomes a character in itself. The use of split-screen, slow-motion, and abrupt cuts doesn’t feel showy—it feels necessary, like the chaos of a breaking mind.
Then comes the second wave: quiet, devastating, and redemptive.
