The Impossible 2012 Staring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.... is the film based on the experience of Maria Belon and her family in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami that devastated the Asian cost. You may think to yourself that this isnt horror by genre definition but its horror of the worse kind. The uncontrollable destruction that is Nature upon both the physical and spiritual creature that is man. Hundreds of thousand of people lost their lives in just a few minutes and even more after the water receded. This film pulls no punches in its depiction of the brutality and force brought by the Tsunami.( Brought to us by the same team that gave us The Orphanage ) Twisted limbs, chunks of flesh missing, seeping blood mixed with rivers of mud. The dead stacked like firewood, hanging from trees, and those left to wonder about like zombies, isolated in a sea of the dead, in chaos that is a natural disaster. Made more real and heart retching because its not fiction. I found myself holding my breath and emotionally moved by this struggle. Fighting every step of the way with the Bennetts . If youre looking for a film that will rip your guts out faster then Jack, then take the time and watch The Impossible . Ive included a survivors response to the film: Response from victims Simon Jenkins, a British survivor from Portsmouth, wrote to The Guardian, stating the film is beautifully accurate. This was in response to critics commenting that the movie is overdramatic and whitewashed. He says of the comments, As I must, Ive never been the sort of person to revisit and analyze events of the past, but some of these articles frustrated me. Had this film been purely about the tale of a western middle-class familys ruined holiday then I would have agreed. For me, it was the exact opposite. Rather than concentrating on the privileged white visitors, the film portrayed the profound sense of community and unity that I experienced in Thailand, with this family at the center of it. Both for my (then) 16-year-old self and the Belón family, it was the Thai people who waded through the settled water after the first wave had struck to help individuals and families... The Thai people had just lost everything – homes, businesses, families – yet their instinct was to help the tourists.
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 02:20:06 +0000
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