The Impossible
Disaster movie theme continues with The Impossible, the story of one family caught in the 2004 Thailand tsunami. Based on the real experience of a family separated when the water swept over their resort, The Impossible brings us into the hotel, onto the beach, and swept in the aftermath of loss, injury, and the struggle to cope with a natural disaster.
The film does it well because I never want to experience a tsunami first hand. The story focus is on the mother, Maria, and the oldest son, Lucas, while they are separated from Maria's husband and other two boys. What was important in the hours before the tsunami, becomes forgotten as Maria and Lucas try and stay together as the water takes them away and injures their bodies in the process.
The two characters go through so much, that it's hard to comprehend that this all happened in real life, in a short time period. We see the wreckage, the survivors, many still in bathing suits and bloody from their injuries, the overworked hospitals that are not prepared for patients on this scale, and we see hope.
The Impossible isn't a movie in the sense that there is a main plot and resolution. This really captures a moment in time, as experienced by a real family and through their story we can understand a small glimpse of what this must have been like.
What you do get is an intense ride through someone's life with the second thought of ever wanting to sleep on beach front property again. This is a strong story that kept me engaged with the characters and in the moment. I wouldn't call it Best Picture of the year by any means but Naomi Watts deserves the Best Actress nominations that she's received so far.
The film does it well because I never want to experience a tsunami first hand. The story focus is on the mother, Maria, and the oldest son, Lucas, while they are separated from Maria's husband and other two boys. What was important in the hours before the tsunami, becomes forgotten as Maria and Lucas try and stay together as the water takes them away and injures their bodies in the process.
The two characters go through so much, that it's hard to comprehend that this all happened in real life, in a short time period. We see the wreckage, the survivors, many still in bathing suits and bloody from their injuries, the overworked hospitals that are not prepared for patients on this scale, and we see hope.
The Impossible isn't a movie in the sense that there is a main plot and resolution. This really captures a moment in time, as experienced by a real family and through their story we can understand a small glimpse of what this must have been like.
What you do get is an intense ride through someone's life with the second thought of ever wanting to sleep on beach front property again. This is a strong story that kept me engaged with the characters and in the moment. I wouldn't call it Best Picture of the year by any means but Naomi Watts deserves the Best Actress nominations that she's received so far.
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