"Go
and help people.”
The Impossible is based on a true
story about a family vacationing in Thailand in 2004 when a cataclysmic
earthquake in the Indian Ocean unleashed history’s most destructive tsunami.
The
film begins with director
Juan Antonio Bayona’s dynamo tsunami scene that surpasses
Clint Eastwood's once-impressive one in Hereafter. Bayona captures the magnitude of
the disaster’s effect on thousands of people in Thailand, but he
soon moves to a more personal story. One that is haunting, poignant — and tough
to watch at times.
The full cast does a
remarkable job of convincing us of their personal struggles to tell us
something about humanity. Mel Gibson and Anne Hathaway would have screamed
through this; kudos to the subtle and refined Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.
Simply
put: An astonishing real
life story.
Award
potential: Watts is the underdog
to win Best Actress. Ewan McGregor’s
category was too tough for someone who split the screen time with the her, and
the film was also robbed of a nomination for Best Visual Effects.
The ten
buck review: Worth ten bucks. Bring tissues.
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