More than depressing.
Downright disturbing in that it was based on reality. It was an excellent movie, very well done. I see portions of it again sometimes but can't watch the whole thing again; it's too heartbreaking. The same way it tears me up whenever I hear the song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The sailors who go out on those boats know that they risk not coming back but they go out anyway. What a horrid way to die, alone in cold, unforgiving water.