‘Adrift’ Director Baltasar Kormákur Explains the Reasoning Behind the Movie’s Wild Plot Twist

Spoiler Alert: This article reveals the ending of “Adrift.”“Adrift” is hardly the kind of movie you might expect to be harboring a massive plot twist.

A waterlogged survival thriller about a young woman who’s stranded at sea for 41 days with nothing but her wits and a jar of peanut butter to keep her alive, on the surface it seems like pretty straightforward stuff.

We’re talking about a sturdy, tactile little film in which the average scene consists of Shailene Woodley sticking her eye into a sextet or trying to conquer her character’s vegetarianism so that she can stomach a spare tin of Spam — it’s not exactly an episode of “Westworld.”Besides, there isn’t really much of a mystery about what’s going to happen in the end.

“Adrift” tells the harrowing true story of Tami Oldham, and was adapted from a memoir written by Oldham herself,

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