"The Impossible" film - A MUST see !!!

tenke

Just a quick one to recommend " The Impossible " film as a MUST see !!:j

Even after 9 pm, today I am still thinking about it. It is raw and realistic and shows how human beings transform, endure and cope with such catastrophic adversity.

I personally LOVE Ewan Mcgregor, but I have to say that Naomi Watts has more chances, to show her utterly powerful emotional performance.

If she doesnt get an Oscar for this, it will be a travesty !!:eek::D

Mrs.W_2

Response from people who survived the tsunami has not been all that positive. Especially when the trailer was shown in cinemas with no warning of the content.

Mara69

Can't be doing with films that spout 'hope, love and triumph'.

Lunar_Eclipse

Mrs.W wrote: »

Response from people who survived the tsunami has not been all that positive. Especially when the trailer was shown in cinemas with no warning of the content.

From the reviews I've read, feedback has been mixed from survivors, several of whom hugely influenced whether key elements were included in the film or not (such as dead bodies which they said were absolutely necessary to communicate the huge loss of the tsunami.)

I understand most of the negative reviews were purely related to the trailer and lack of warning, which is completely understandable, but can't possibly be huge numbers of people. I saw the trailer before a kids film.

I think the film looks amazing and whilst I know I'll cry through most of it and feel hugely affected at the end of it, I will be going to see it. I think it's interesting that the main storyline is how to carry on living after going through something like a tsunami (survivor guilt) as opposed to a focus on the disaster itself, a plot supposedly influenced by the family it is based upon when the director met them (prior to script writing.)

KatyC_2

Seriously? 250,000 people died just 8 short years ago. A local family to me have just endured another Christmas without their son who would've been 9 years old. This is a tragedy, not entertainment. The thought of rubbernecking !!!!!ish hoards slurping their coke and munching popcorn through this exploitative carp makes me feel sick.
There, I'll get down from my soapbox now.

seashore22

Agree with above.

It may be a cinematic masterpiece, although probably not, but it is far too soon to be making entertainment out of it.

catkins

Saw a trailer for this when me and OH went to see Skyfall. We both looked at each other and said "Who on earth would want to go and see that?".

Far too soon after the awful tragedy to make a film in my view

heretolearn_2

I love disaster movies but I felt very uncomfortable about the idea of this one when I saw the trailer. Even the Titanic movie was a bit iffy to me, these are real people's real lives and real deaths being turned into entertainment.

It's all very well one family, who had a presumably happy ending, giving permission for their story to be filmed (and no doubt being paid for the rights), but hundreds of thousands were involved in this, and died, and had their whole lives wrecked (in a way that tourists caught up in it didn't if they were lucky enough to survive) and it just seems plain exploitative to me. It wouldn't be so bad if some of the profits were to go to a relevant charity, but there's been no announcement of that so have to assume not.

I think it was extremely poor judgement to show the trailer without warning before The Hobbit - I'm sure some survivors or those who lost people in the tsunami saw it unexpectedly. I can only imagine how it felt to them to be sitting in a cinema for a nice Christmas treat to be suddenly confronted with this.

This is a 'must not see' for me.

Incapuppy

Totally agree with other peoples' negative comments (OH and I were actually discussing this last night).

I feel hugely uncomfortable with the whole idea of making this into a hugely profitable 'blockbuster' This is not your average (fictional) disaster story, this is profitting from hundreds of thousands of peoples agony and misery.

The only way I feel that this would have been at all acceptable was if all of the profits were ploughed back into the communities affected. I have not researched the matter but I would have thought that if such financial assistance was planned then it would have been loudly trumpeted during publicity for the film.

tenke

Wow, such mixed responses, I thought I ought to clarify a few points...:eek:

Most of the people who were in that cinema yesterday, except 3 big groups maybe, were not munching on popcorn, not playing with mobiles or even chattering away...:eek:

The whole atmosphere was silent and attentive as if you were watching a documentary..

The film focuses on HUMANKIND, how human beings help each other, like a guy lending his mob with his little battery saved so another distraught human being can call his loved ones home and say he is alive, an old 70s Thai man carrying a young woman for miles and miles because she needed medical treatment, etc,etc. Dont want to give much away as some people still have not seen it...;)

This film was not made for entertainment, it was made so that people can reflect about a natural disaster and how sometimes you can endure and survive. Of course, nothing will be the same again, you will have survivor's guilt for many years, but the whole highlight that you leave with is even, after such tragedy there is HOPE:T

The film focuses on a HUMAN aspect, not so much on the natural horror, but yet seeing the Natural horror and the bodies, help you see the magnitude of it all, to reach that place in your heart, where you can say a prayer for those gone, and to ask yourself, how could I have helped if I was in the same situation??:eek:
The director is Spanish and the real family is Spanish and knowing the culture really well, I know his whole theme was representing a real family strugggling together and helping each other and others as well, and that's what the film has done, and that is what Spanish people would do in real life, exactly as the real family has done.

I for one, feel the film has provoked so much afterthought and inner questions, I am a different, wiser, more aware person now, that I was before I entered that cinema room, and that;s what I wanted to share with you:T
Thanks for reading :)

ostrichnomore_2

"This film was not made for entertainment, it was made so that people can reflect about a natural disaster and how sometimes you can endure and survive."

Sorry, don't agree. If that were the case, then it would have been a documentary. Like any other film, its sole purpose in being made is to make a profit, plain and simple. Producers and film companies are not in the business of spending millions of pounds (and possibly losing millions of pounds) to educate us all on 'hope'.

There's enough news reports and features about the tsunami and how people reacted to it to provide thousands of stories of humanity, cooperation, assistance, hope, if anyone feels the need to go and examine their own humanity.

And yes, pretty much everyone fell silent in the cinema when I was there and the trailer was aired. I heard more than one comment along the lines of 'what! they've turned it into a film?'. I think most people went silent, yes out of respect, but mainly out of shock that this film has been made!