I thought the film was fairly well done and thought provoking. The sailing bits weren't bad, though all movie makers should just refrain from trying to depict sailboats in a storm because it always looks like what it is - risibly fake.
The obvious point of the whole thing was to put the viewer in her position ("what would I do?") and also to point out official indifference to the plight of refugees on the high seas. Personally I found most of her actions related to the refugee boat annoying - especially after the African boy she'd rescued threw her overboard, motored away and chucked her water supply into the sea because he was upset that she wasn't up to the impossible task of rescuing his sister. Not sure what the film makers were trying to do by inserting that into the story.
The obvious point of the whole thing was to put the viewer in her position ("what would I do?") and also to point out official indifference to the plight of refugees on the high seas. Personally I found most of her actions related to the refugee boat annoying - especially after the African boy she'd rescued threw her overboard, motored away and chucked her water supply into the sea because he was upset that she wasn't up to the impossible task of rescuing his sister. Not sure what the film makers were trying to do by inserting that into the story.