Deep Blue Sea 3 story
When Dr. Emma Collins and her team are on Little Happy Island studying the effect of climate change on great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team shows up looking for three bull sharks. It is the third and final installment of the Deep Blue Sea film series, and a direct sequel to Deep Blue Sea 2.
14 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. beast | choice | The scientists and two native inhabitants living in an abandoned fishing village in the Mozambique Channel were torn to pieces, one by one, by intelligent bull sharks. |
| species uplifting | choice | A main novelty of the film is that bull sharks had been made intelligent by means of genetic engineering. The sharks were smart enough to want to kill the people who'd killed their mother, cut a satellite cable to prevent the people on the island from calling for help, and flee upon recognizing a weapon on a ship. |
| global warming | major | A recurrent topic in the film is that climate change is already happening, and that it is perhaps too late to stop it. In particular, Emma spoke of how climate change was causing ocean levels to rise and that this would ultimately result in Houston and the Florida Keys being submerged under ocean water. Also Lucas was of the mind that the world was going to hell because of climate change and the best thing to do was to make as much money from it as you could. |
| old flames | major | Richard was revealed to be Emma's ex-boyfriend from their grad school days, and the two quarreled like in days of old throughout the film. |
| boss and employee | minor | Emma was being a pushy, demanding boss to Spinn and Miya. |
| coping with the death of a friend | minor | Emma pointedly mourned the death of her longtime friend and colleague, Shaw. |
| coping with the death of a lover | minor | Nandi was consoled after her lover's arm was pulled up in a fishing net. |
| ecology | minor | Emma explained how more and more CO2 emissions were getting absorbed into the ocean every year, resulting in rising water temperatures and increasing acidification, resulting in species going extinct among other thing. |
| fear for one's life | minor | Miya was at one point alone and in mortal terror of being eaten by sharks. |
| female bonding | minor | Miya and Emma had a girl talk over Miya's romantic interest in Spinn. |