The new French film that is sweeping Netflix is an action-horror thriller about the violent attacks of a white shark
“To save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to confront her past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.”
It is the premise under which we are presented In the depths of the Seinean action and suspense film which has just arrived on the Netflix streaming platform and is already number 1 in several countries, including Spain, where it already leads the most popular ranking.
Directed by Xavier Gens for the platform, the film stars Bérénice Bejo as Sophia, a scientist who receives a worrying alert from environmental activist Mika (Léa Léviant) in the midst of preparing for the World Triathlon Championships that are about to take place. to be held in Paris and which the city awaits with great expectation: A huge Atlantic shark has somehow found its way into the Seine River and is now in Paris.
When Sophia’s research confirms this and she informs the city politicians about the danger, no one believes her, but the scientist finds support in Adil (Nassim Lyes), the commander of the river police. Together they try to hunt down the predator, but when the World Cup kicks off, the swimming portion of the sports competition becomes a gourmet buffet for the misplaced shark.
As usually happens with supermonster movies – and especially those about sharks – the feature film has not taken long to attract the attention of Netflix subscribers, but some scientists have not been able to avoid showing their astonishment with the unrealistic nature of the premise it proposes. the history.
“The movie ‘Megalodon’ is more coherent”
“It’s a shame. I fell out of the closet when I saw the trailer,” says Nicolas Ziani, founder of the Phocéen Shark Study Group dedicated to the study of sharksin statements to Le Parisian. “It is a cognitive apocalypse. It is almost fake news. We are importing a problem that has never existed in France. The film Megalodon starring Jason Statham, is almost more coherent.”
“Of course, there are euryhaline species [que toleran variaciones de salinidad]like gray sharks, which have adapted to brackish waters but not exactly to fresh waters, like in the Ganges,” confirms the specialist.
But the great white shark is a very sensitive species, it would not survive two days in the waters of the Seine even without pollution.
“This film gives an image of catastrophism that borders on insanity. It has no scientific credibility, even though it surrounds its theme with a vague ecological message,” he says. Furthermore, the scientist recalls that the great white shark is in danger of extinction and is very rarely seen off the French coast.
Finally, the expert referred to the film’s 20 million euro budget, which would have been better invested in research: “Research to better understand our French sharks is in agony at the moment.”
