Did anybody actually understand the movie "Dark Water"?

Question

I watched that movie on Encore and it gave me a huge headache.What was the plot?

Answer 1

We must have watched it together, unknowingly. I too watched it on Encore, and thought it was the darkest, most depressing, strange movie ever made. I like Jennifer Connely. I thought she was brilliant in House of Sand and Fog, but watching this movie made me want her character to die. Two totally different roles, but if I were her, I would stay away from dark thrillers like this one! It was ever so boring in most parts, the only good part was her ex being played by the guy who plays Ian on Desperate Housewives. Never saw him before D.H.Wives but glad to see he has had movie credit after all. That's all for now!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Did anybody actually understand the movie "Dark Water"?
I watched that movie on Encore and it gave me a huge headache.What was the plot?

Answer 4

Let me break it down for you. A little girl was abandoned by her parents. She was left all alone and got lost in her own little world.

When she went exploring the apartment building, as so many young children do, she found her way to the roof and water tower. She fell in to it and drowned.

She haunted the building, trying to get someone to find her and keep her company. She was trying to find a mother that would care about her for once.

When she found that little girl's mom and saw what a good mother she was, she wanted her all for herself. She used the little girl to force the mother into agreeing to stay in the building as a ghost and take care of her. She just didn't want to be alone anymore. Understand?

Answer 5

There's the dead little girl with the crappy parents who neglected her. She dies and no one even notices. Then one day, this good mother and her daughter move in. She befriends the little girl, but in the end, covets the mother and tries to do away with the girl and take her place. But being a good mother, the lady makes the ultimate sacrifice... her own life for that of her daughter.

Just watch the original Japanese version "Honogurai mizu no soko kara".

Answer 6

Plot: Roosevelt Island is a horrible place to live.....

Little girl has horrible parents--she dies while they aren't around and no one knows or cares and therefore... becomes an angry ghost, who haunts good mothers trying to make them 'mother' her. In the end, she kills the mother so they can be mother and daughter ghosts...... I can't believe I just wrote any of that--how absurd.

Answer 7

dont know either...i put it in the same category as the grudge

the only thing i could get out of it was the little girl died (after parents abandoned her) and now she wants her body to be found (in water thing on top of apt building) so she goes to other little girl and mom to lead them to her body.

Answer 8

I fell asleep halfway through the movie.

Answer 9

THE POINT OF THE MOVIE WAS THE FACT THAT THE LITTLE GIRL DRAWN AN THE ROUGH AND NO ONE DID ANY THING AND HER MOM WAS A DUMB B**** SO SHE WANTED A NEW ONE WICH REALLY I DIDNT LIKE THE MOVIE ..

Answer 10

PLOT! Spoilers!!!!

When “Dark Water” opens, we see a young girl standing outside after school in the rain, waiting for her mother, who has yet to show up.

Flash forward to 2005, we see a grown up Dahlia in the midst of a bitter mediation with her ex-husband, Kyle, over sharing custody of their daughter, Cecilia, also referred to as Ceci. Kyle wants Ceci to live closer to his apartment in Jersey City so the joint-custody agreement would be easier, but Dahlia wants to move to Roosevelt Island, where she has found a good school for Cecilia. Kyle threatens to sue for full custody because he feels the distance to see his daughter is too great. He claims that Dahlia is an unfit mother due to the fact that she was abused by her father and abandoned by her mother at a young age. He also claims that Dahlia is mentally unstable and suffers from debilitating migraines, though Dahlia insists the migraines are not severe. Dahlia shouts that Kyle doesn't even remember Ceci's birthday and that he doesn't even like playing with her.

Dahlia and Cecilia see an apartment in a complex on Roosevelt Island, which is just a couple blocks from Cecilia's new school. The janitor of the apartment building is Mr. Veeck, who is charged with the general maintenance of the building's many lacking features. The super, Mr. Murray, uses questionable tactics in order to rent the substandard and undersized apartment. Ceci sneaks up onto the roof where she finds a Hello Kitty book bag near the water tank. The bag is left with Mr. Veeck who promises Cecilia that she can have it if no one claims it in a week. Cecilia, who has disliked the apartment from the moment she arrived, now wants desperately to live there. Dahlia agrees and they move in.

Shortly after moving in, the ceiling in the bedroom begins to leak dark water. The source is the apartment above, 10F, where a family, the Rimskys, lived up until a month ago. Since then, two teens have reportedly been vandalizing the apartment. At one point, Dahlia enters 10F and finds the place flooded, with dark water flowing from every faucet in the apartment and from the walls and toilet. Dahlia finds a family portrait of the former tenants. There is a mother, father, and young girl who looks about Ceci's age. Dahlia complains to both Mr. Veeck and Mr. Murray about the water, but the former does little about it despite the insistence of the latter. Things become even more strange for Dahlia when she has dreams of a little girl who appears to be Ceci returning from a visit to her father's home, but the girl's appearance changes everytime Dahlia looks away from her in the dream, so that she looks like the young girl in the portrait in 10F.

Cecilia has started school, but according to her new teacher, she isn’t fitting in with the class and is spending too much time with an imaginary friend, named Natasha. A psychologist is recommended, but Dahlia refuses and tells Cecilia to ignore Natasha. This is made more difficult when the Hello Kitty book bag, which Mr. Veeck said was claimed but was actually thrown in the garbage, ends up in Cecilia’s hands after finding it in the elevator. The name in the book bag is “Natasha Rimsky”.

The ceiling, shoddily patched up by Mr. Veeck, begins to leak heavily. At school, Cecilia appears to get into a fight with Natasha and passes out in the girls’ bathroom after dark water starts pouring from the toilets and sinks, Natasha confronting Cecilia in a stall. Dahlia, who is meeting with her lawyer, can’t be reached at work, so Kyle picks her up from the hospital and takes her to his apartment without telling Dahlia.

Dahlia breaks down when she can’t find her daughter and begins having strange dreams. These lead her back onto the roof and onto the water tank. She looks inside and finds Natasha’s body in there. When the police arrive, it is discovered that there was a grave miscommunication between the Rimskys; the father thought that Natasha was with her mother while the mother thought the girl was with her father. The father was an alcoholic who was known for always shouting, and the mother was no better. The mother left because she didn't feel she could care for Natasha, and the father left soon afterwards, somehow under the impression that Natasha was with her mother. The girl was left alone in the abandoned apartment and stumbled into the water tank, which Mr. Veeck had left open. He was aware of her body and that was why he refused to fix the water problem plaguing the complex. Mr. Veeck was arrested and Mr. Murray was questioned.

Dahlia agrees to move closer to Kyle so the shared custody will go easier. As Dahlia is packing, Cecilia is taking a bath. A girl in a bathrobe comes out of the bathroom, wanting to read with Dahlia. Dahlia begins reading, but when she hears voices in the bathroom, she realizes that the girl in the bathrobe is Natasha. She begs Dahlia not to leave her, however Dahlia rushes into the bathroom to save Cecilia. Natasha then locks Ceci in the bathtub and begins to drown her. Dahlia pleads with Natasha, promising to be her mother forever. Natasha lets Cecilia go and floods the apartment, which causes Dahlia to die and fulfill her promise. Her ghost and that of Natasha then walk down the hallway.

Kyle picks up the traumatized Cecilia from the police station, and weeks later, the two go back to pick up the rest of her stuff. Cecilia has a flashback of her and her mother looking at pictures together, and in the elevator, her mother’s ghost braids her hair and comforts her – telling her she will always be there. Kyle, momentarily horrified with a malfunction in the elevator and weird behavior of his daughter, finally takes her away to his own apartment in Jersey City.