The Credibility Of The Drought In The Film Cry On Earth

The film opened with an investigator, Jake, speaking to a woman who is supposedly married to Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of water and power in the area. She is concerned that he is cheating on him. After bringing bad publicity to his name, the real wife of Mulwray comes about claiming she will sue Jake for what he released about her husband. Jake realizes he and Evelyn, the wife, were set up and she drops the law suit. When Jake goes to find Mulwray he finds him already dead, in the bottom of a reservoir. Jake returns to the reservoir after a boy told him the supposedly empty reservoir still floods. It is decided that something is mysterious about the drought and it might be involved in Mulwray’s death. He meets with a man named Cross who owned all of the water supply in the area. Jake eventually learns from a farmer the truth behind the drought. He learns that it is made up so that farmers will sell their land for cheap, so people like Cross could buy the land. Once the dam that Mulwray
The fake drought is believable because of the location. Cross was able to set up this con successfully and trick people because of it, making the location the backbone of the plot. Even though the movie was mainly about a murder mystery, the driving force behind the murder was due to issues with water availability. During the movie the audience can tell the landscape looks dry, making it a twist when you learn that the drought was made up for a scheme. It kept the mystery going because the murders were declared as a drowning but the reservoir seemed to be dried up. It was not until slightly later that you learned that the reservoir still flooded. The landscape and how dry it looked during the movie kept the mystery going throughout storyline, making the reveal of the scheme a bigger twist than it would have been if it was filmed somewhere greener or closer to fresh