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Movie Blurb by Shale
January 5, 2013
This story is based on an actual event, the Tsunami that hit South Asian coasts on December 26, 2004, killing hundreds of thousands of ppl. It is based on a Spanish family but the story was changed to an English family so that Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts could speak their native tongue.
Director Juan Antonio Bayona worked with the Balon family who actually experienced the ordeal and they were also consulted by McGregor and Watts. Here is a heads-up to the empathetic - you will cry during parts of this movie. McGregor said he did when reading the script.
The story opens with the Belon family flying on Christmas holiday to Thailand. With a few scenes of a standard tropical vacation over Christmas, our story starts on the 26th with the family around the hotel pool, when there is a dull roar, changing winds and then the horror of seeing the wall of water destroying everything as it comes toward you. It is total chaos as everyone is swept away in different directions and separated.
From here is the story of how Lucas has to help his injured mother while processing all the carnage around him. (Watts and Holland are totally convincing in this role). The rest of the movie shows how these two separated parts of the family survive and search for each other (or closure) not really knowing who survived. The special effects really conveyed a sense of overwhelming natural disaster and the confusion and isolation after that disaster was also frighteningly real.
This movie is given high marks by reviewers and audiences, including me.
See More Here:
http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7506952#post7506952
Movie Blurb by Shale
January 5, 2013
This story is based on an actual event, the Tsunami that hit South Asian coasts on December 26, 2004, killing hundreds of thousands of ppl. It is based on a Spanish family but the story was changed to an English family so that Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts could speak their native tongue.
Director Juan Antonio Bayona worked with the Balon family who actually experienced the ordeal and they were also consulted by McGregor and Watts. Here is a heads-up to the empathetic - you will cry during parts of this movie. McGregor said he did when reading the script.
The story opens with the Belon family flying on Christmas holiday to Thailand. With a few scenes of a standard tropical vacation over Christmas, our story starts on the 26th with the family around the hotel pool, when there is a dull roar, changing winds and then the horror of seeing the wall of water destroying everything as it comes toward you. It is total chaos as everyone is swept away in different directions and separated.
From here is the story of how Lucas has to help his injured mother while processing all the carnage around him. (Watts and Holland are totally convincing in this role). The rest of the movie shows how these two separated parts of the family survive and search for each other (or closure) not really knowing who survived. The special effects really conveyed a sense of overwhelming natural disaster and the confusion and isolation after that disaster was also frighteningly real.
This movie is given high marks by reviewers and audiences, including me.
See More Here:
http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7506952#post7506952
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