Man, I wish I was a heart string salesman. Sales will be
going through the roof after the two hours of tugging and eventual breaking of
heart strings due to the release of The
Impossible. A Spanish production and based on a real life Spanish family’s
experiences, The Impossible stars
Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as the husband and wife of a family caught up in
the Boxing Day Tsunami that struck South East Asia in 2004. While on holiday
the Tsunami hits the Thai beach resort that the family are staying at, separating
Wife Maria (Watts) and eldest son Lucas (Tom Holland) from Husband Henry
(McGregor) and youngest sons Thomas and Simon (Samuel Joslin and Oaklee Pendergast).
With Maria seriously injured and little help at hand, the family struggle to
survive in the most unimaginable conditions.
I have mixed feelings about The Impossible. On the one hand it is an expertly made film which
brings a terrible tragedy to the big screen but on the other hand that tragedy
is still fresh in the memory and the lengths to which the movie tugs at the
audience’s emotions feel cheap and unnecessary. Although I’m sure it will be
well received by critics, I have my reservations and my girlfriend downright disliked
it.
