Film Review: Standing in Still Water1 min read

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STANDING IN STILL WATER reflects the lives of damaged Singaporeans, including a crippled young woman on the road of recovery; a man who sinks a dark secret to the bottom of the reservoir; the tale of a man struggling to recover from the loss of his daughter; and a young father who fails to reach out to his autistic son.

The reservoir, the life giver and life taker, connects these four characters who face loss, death, hope and love. And they are ultimately swept away by unrelenting waves of change.

As a debut feature, director Ric Aw has chosen to focus on a thematic that is familiar and close to his heart. During the Q&A session at the Singapore International Film Festival of Standing in Still Water, Ric recounted a childhood accident at a local reservoir that almost took his life. This traumatic experience clearly assimilated itself onto the screen, as the motif of the power of water and the natural anchors this tale of four interwoven stories, providing an entry point into its intimate examinations of the familial tragedies in everyday lives.

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