This little known movie is a must see if you own an OLED TV
So, there I was, sitting on the couch, very late on a Saturday night, and I suddenly had the opportunity to watch a movie.
Out comes the JustWatch app and its ever-growing list of movies I’ve marked to watch sometimes. Now it’s my turn to make one mark.
Now, I admit, on this occasion, I did something that I do slowly and it was programmed at runtime. I’m a tired guy, and did I mention it was late at night?
The movie (I’ll avoid spoilers as much as possible here, but if you want to go in completely cold, just trust me and get it on the Prime Video app or buy The Last Spirit 4K Blu-ray from Amazon) is a North Sea disaster drama that saw a diver 300 meters below sea level.
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It’s interesting to see how this industry and these divers work.
They live for weeks at a time in pressurized capsules stored in the bowels of the ship. Each day, the submersible takes them down, deep into the ocean, from where they fall to the sea to repair the gas lines that fall to the bottom. It’s amazing stuff.
That’s not what makes it a great OLED display, though. What makes a great OLED display is the combination of a completely dark environment with small areas of sharp light.
When an unlucky diver gets trapped in the first place, he sinks into complete darkness. Lost, you light a red flare. Look at an OLED TV that’s well positioned and in a pitch-black room, and the bright red light from the light is all you can see.
This perfect contrast is something that only OLED can achieve. The best Mini LED TVs may come close, but they still can’t put a completely black pixel next to a bright red one, and this is a perfect, uncluttered (and therefore unobtrusive) delivery that sells the stressful drama and puts you in the shoes of a diver left at the bottom of the ocean.
For what it’s worth, I enjoyed the film as a whole. The characters are one-dimensional, but the performances (especially those of Woody Harrelson and Mark Bonnar) are strong enough to sell the extraordinary story.
But it’s the stunning high-contrast display that convinced me to order the 4K Blu-ray to a) see it in HDR as intended, and b) use it to put the upcoming OLED TVs and Mini LED TVs through their paces in our dedicated test rooms.
Watch Last Breath on Amazon Prime Video
Order Last Breath 4K Blu-ray from Amazon
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