Undine (2020) Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a romance fantasy film: "Undine"!
Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care! The film starts with a woman named Undine,
and a man named John, a couple who's out to have a date. There's a build-up tension between them,
as Undine suspects her partner of cheating on her. John tries to brush it off by acting normal,
and offering her coffee. Undine declines at first, but still accepts the offer in the end.
She is having a hard time suppressing her emotion, and fails as she cries silently
when John leaves her to get coffee. But as soon as the man comes back, Undine holds back her tears,
and tries to act like nothing happened. John receives a call, and is ready to go
after lighting his cigarette. Undine stops him by threatening him that she will have to kill him,
if he leaves her. John agrees with her, but his face says otherwise. And so, Undine leaves.
Undine goes inside an establishment, where a personnel greets her. She changes her clothes,
and looks outside from the window, where she spots John talking to someone on the phone. She's not
happy with what she sees, as she probably thinks he's talking to another woman. But
then someone calls for her attention, and tells her that someone's already waiting for her.
Undine turns out to be a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. As they are
in the middle of the lecture, Undine zones out, as her mind goes back to
where John is. Luckily she's back on track immediately. After her lecturing session,
she goes outside to meet John where she left him, but he's no longer there.
She goes inside the cafe, with the hopes of finding John there; but unfortunately she
doesn't. She sees an open faucet, which she closes. As she's about to exit the building,
she hears someone calling for her name from the aquarium. It catches her attention,
but she seems afraid of the water. A man, named Christoph, enters the cafe. He turns out to
be an industrial diver, and is also one of the audience who received her lecture a while ago.
Christoph compliments her, and attempts to ask her out for coffee; but her facial expression is
blank, so Christoph takes that as a sign to back off. Christoph's back bumps into the displays,
and the aquarium seems to rattle, so she pulls the man away from the aquarium. The aquarium suddenly
breaks. The water overflows and gets them. Undine even injures herself, whereas Christoph tries
to remove the shards of glass that gets on her. Christoph shows hormone interest in Undine.
The scene shifts and shows Christoph doing his work underwater, as a giant catfish as
big as two meters passes by his sight. He takes so long to go up as he's mesmerized
by what he just witnessed that his workmate almost pulls him up. Christoph will spend the
whole weekend on the lake waiting for Undine. He and his fellow divers check the footage of the
giant catfish he got a while ago. They start packing their things and are ready to go.
Meanwhile, Undine is riding a train to meet Christoph. As soon as she's out from the train,
they hug each other. They spend the night together in a hotel. Later on, Undine and
Christoph dive underwater together. he shows Undine the carved name of her under the water,
probably his own doing as an effort to be romantic. Christoph lets go of her hand
to properly show her the name, until suddenly Undine is nowhere from Christoph's sight.
The catfish appears. Moments later, Christoph spots a pair of diver flippers floating with a
flashlight. he searches for Undine out of panic, and finally finds Undine; but she
is being dragged by the catfish. Undine's diving equipment is no longer intact to her. The catfish
leaves her floating unconscious body in the water. Christoph immediately retrieves her, and performs
CPR. Fortunately, Undine is saved by his immediate rescue. They hug and flirt each other's hormones
right after, as if nothing even happened. Later on, after spending the weekend together,
Undine now readies herself to ride the train, as Christoph escorts her to the station. As
they both wait for the train, Christoph gives something to Undine, before her train can depart.
He gives her a figurine of a diver, that is from the aquarium that broke when they first met.
Undine goes back to being a historian, and cherishes the figurine to the point that she
always has it beside her. Unfortunately, it breaks, as she accidentally hits it with her
hand as she wakes up. her colleague requests her to have the forum, and so she practices for the
forum as she tries to fix the broken figurine. Undine receives a call from Christoph. he visits
her in her unit. They spend the night together, and talk about the figurine diver that's now
broken. They both enjoy the night, kissing, and even having wine spilled. The next day comes;
Christoph will be at work in time for Undine's forum, so he asks her to let him hear her forum
talk, as he will not be present for her forum. Undine allows his request,
and starts her practice talk for the forum. Christoph listens to her talk with full attention.
They go outside the veranda to make the forum performance realistic, by asking the audience
to participate in the talk. The scene shows how utterly in love the two are with each other.
The next day, they walk to the train station, as Christoph is set to go back to his work.
While they bid each other goodbye, they tongue massage some more. They then both go back to
their work. Later on, Before Undine can get inside the establishment she's working at,
she finds John waiting for her. John admits that he's truly having an
affair with someone else. He shows his regret. He tells her that he's willing to make up for
his mistakes. But Undine heads to the forum venue. As she's about to start the forum,
she looks from the window view, and finds John waiting for her in the same spot, where she left
him from the very beginning. Undine brushes it off, and continues with the forum talk.
As soon as she's done with her forum talk, just like from before, she goes straight outside to
meet John. They head to the same cafe from the first scene, when Undine suspected John
of cheating on her. They sit, but the waiter tells them that Undine cannot order anything
from the cafe, as she's banned there because of the incident she and Christoph made from before.
Undine does not move, and just listens to John talk. John tells her that he will wait for her to
finish, and tells her that they will drive to the hotel Undine has always wanted him to bring her
to. Undine does not say anything, and simply walks out. Undine views John from the window once again,
seemingly not successful in completely moving on from her ex. Undine catches him leaving their
spot. This implies that John will no longer wait for her, as he probably has already accepted that
their relationship is completely over now. Back in her dorm, Undine happily listens to
music. Christoph calls her, asking her if she is waiting for someone in particular at the cafe.
he wants her to admit if she has ever loved someone before him, or at least aside from
him. Undine denies the truth, and he claims that she is lying. Christoph is sure Undine is lying,
making him so upset that he hangs up the phone, never answering her call again.
Over the night, Undine tries to call him, but ends up getting directed to voicemail. There,
she chooses to admit that everything Christoph suspects about her waiting
for someone in the cafe, is true. She admits lying, and explains everything
to him that he's the one she loves now. The next morning, Undine wakes up, and decides
to go to Christoph personally, as he is still not responding to her. She gets off the train,
and heads straight to the lake, where she sees a commotion. She calls for Christoph,
but his colleague tells her that Christoph is currently in the hospital because of an
accident. she desperately asks for the hospital where Christoph is, and rushes to head there.
Inside the hospital room, she finds a girl colleague of Christoph. Undine sees Christoph
with tubes intact to him, still unconscious. The girl colleague tells Undine that Christoph went
twelve minutes without air, so the doctor says he's already brain dead. Undine finds it hard to
believe, as they were just talking last night. Tears pool in Undine's eyes. she asks if there was
anything Christoph mentioned before the accident. Undine claims Christoph called her last night,
which makes the girl colleague mad, and says that the two of them couldn't possibly have
talked last night. Since Christoph began his dive yesterday afternoon, they pulled him out,
and he was declared brain dead at the hospital by 3:40 pm. This implies that it's impossible
for the Undine and Christoph to talk last night, as he's already declared braindead
around the time he called her through the phone. The girl colleague walks out, as she
is pissed off with Undine's claim. On the other hand, Undine cannot process the truth that her
conversation with Christoph didn't happen, when she clearly knew she talked to him.
The aquarium inside Christoph's hospital room suddenly breaks. As though it's linked with
Undine. She weeps as she caresses and kisses the unconscious Christoph. After that, Undine leaves
the hospital, and rides the train back home. As the night comes, she continues walking alone,
until she reaches a big house. She opens the gate of the house, and enters in.
Undine hears talking from a distance. She sees a girl in her swimsuit through the glass walls. She
proceeds to walk forward, until she reaches the back of the house where the pool is. There, Undine
finds John with another woman. The woman tells John to leave the pool, as his parents will come
home soon. But he doesn't listen, so the woman just leaves, leaving John and Undine there.
Undine silently submerges herself into the pool. She kills John by drowning him. After that,
she just leaves the pool, as if she just didn't commit a crime. This scene gives off the feeling
of Undine's frustration. She probably feels guilty over the tragedy that was struck upon Christoph,
as she couldn't move on with John after all this time that they've been together.
This implies that Undine is feeling punished for not being able to love Christoph fully,
and leave John completely. Dawn comes, and Undine heads to the lake,
submerging underwater. She seems ready to be taken by the water. At that exact moment when
Undine surrenders herself and gets swallowed by the water, Christoph wakes up from his
hospital bed, as he shouts for Undine's name. He searches for Undine after being discharged,
still with his cast to walk. Christoph goes to her old place,
but someone else seems to already own the unit. He trespasses and forces himself inside,
to check if Undine is truly not there. There he sees a stain on the wall, that he proudly
claims is red wine, because he's the one who did that from the night they drank wine together.
Christoph goes to the museum, where Undine used to work as a historian. He suddenly remembers the
last time he and Undine were together. He walks outside, and goes to the outdoor cafe where they
first met. There he finds Undine's colleague at one of the tables, and he tries his luck by trying
to ask her colleague. But her colleague also doesn't know where to find her, saying that they
have not even seen her for months already. With no clues to find Undine's whereabouts, he just
goes back to the cafe where they first met, and looks for the aquarium that broke that day.
Two years pass by. The girl colleague of Christoph is waving at Christoph, who is busy working.
Later on, the girl is now kissing him. It turns out, they are now a new couple. While they are
being intimate as they talk about work, they bring up another colleague of theirs, that's
offering them an underwater job opportunity. Christoph is willing to risk it again,
as the accident already happened a long time ago. It also reveals that the girl is already sixteen
weeks pregnant, with Christoph as the father. As Christoph is diving again, a human hand appears
to hold his hand as he works. That hand turns out to be Undine's hand. Undine seems to be an
underwater nymph now after killing her former lover. After holding his hands, she immediately
leaves and swims away from him. Christoph goes out of the water and up to the deck. He denies what
he just saw, and proceeds to get back to land. Christoph's girl tells him she got scared for his
life, as he took a while to get back. Christoph's behavior turns odd. he checks the screen, where he
can watch the recorded footage and replay it. It shows that there's no Undine being captured.
Later that night, as Christoph and his new girl are sleeping, Christoph goes outside to
the lake silently. He desperately searches for Undine, shouting in the water. His new girl runs
after him, and shouts for his name, trying to stop Christoph. But Christoph doesn't listen. Instead,
He goes into the water, and there he meets Undine. They hold each other's hand. Christoph seems to
be letting himself get swallowed by the water, together with Undine. The other girl then weeps
for her Christoph, but he goes back to her. The film ends with Christoph returning back to his
new lover, with the statue diver that Undine and Christoph's love was once shared with. Christoph
makes his decision to live and move on with his new lover. While Undine will probably forever love
Christoph in her new form as an underwater nymph, that loves more than a human.
And that ends the film based on a myth, a tragic figure called Undine.
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