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Water has always been given a kind of mystical quality, whether in faith, spirituality, or folklore. It’s no wonder that movies and television shows take advantage of this ethereal quality of water in the image of the swimming pool. As you look for the perfect swimming pools in Peachtree City, here are some mystical moments for on-screen swimming pools. Lady in the Water This M. Night Shyamalan classic takes place in an apartment complex with a swimming pool. The owner and residential handyman, ex-doctor Cleveland Heep, discovers a mysterious woman from another world who has come through a kind of mystical portal between worlds within the shoddy apartment’s swimming pool. This pool is how she returns home in the end, as well as a band of hodgepodge characters, whose personas are laced with symbolism, who band together to assist her. This is perhaps one of M. Night Shyamalan’s most innately spiritualized works. Life of Pi Water is everywhere in this film. The main character himself, Pi Patel, short for Piscine, is named after the French word for swimming pool. The film shows a dreamlike, perfect world captured inside of an idyllic French swimming pool, an experience so significant to Pi’s uncle that it led to the name. That French pool represents a kind of experiential spiritual and human perfection coming together. Throughout the film, water serves as a kind of mirror into the conversations and questions that Pi has with himself, as he and his tiger float around on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Stranger Things This recent Netflix phenomenon has a series of scenes that revolve around a swimming pool in someone’s backyard. The high schoolers are goofing off, throwing each other into the pool, and it all comes across playfully enough. The undertone of the series is that there exists a subsurface mystery, known but not understood, that’s exposed slowly as the plot moves forward. In the next scene, one character sits alone on the diving board, light shining up at her from the nighttime darkness, and she is attacked and pulled into another dimension by the story’s villain. This character, Barb, is seen running and struggling through what appears to be the bottom of the swimming pool—but with an otherworldly quality to it. The swimming pool as an object of mysticism and dimension-hopping is a common cinematic theme, which makes for some interesting conversation while you explore your swimming pools in Peachtree City.
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