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

sammyjammy

tenke wrote: »

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

It may have been tastefully done but its about 60 years too early and to say it wasn't made for entertainment is laughable. It was made to make money, end of. They don't make movies for the good of the community.

Angel777

Just my 2p worth... I literally cried all the way through. It was so so touching and absolutely brilliantly made...

It left me a little traumatised i must admit but the actual family that this is about were heavily involved in the making of it to be as real as possible and they certainly acheived that.

I just felt so so grateful afterwards for all the things/people who i have in my life...THANKYOU! xxx

tenke

Angel777 wrote: »

Just my 2p worth... I literally cried all the way through. It was so so touching and absolutely brilliantly made...

It left me a little traumatised i must admit but the actual family that this is about were heavily involved in the making of it to be as real as possible and they certainly acheived that.

I just felt so so grateful afterwards for all the things/people who i have in my life...THANKYOU! xxx

Thanks for sharing Angel777, feeling exactly deeply moved and grateful as you after the film, was what motivated me to start the thread in the 1st place..:T

I always used to think, in extreme situations like this one, it would always be each man for their own, but the film has opened my eyes so much as to the greatness man can rise to, in helping others in tragedies like this..:(

On another note, I went to see this film with my Norwegian friend, and we were discussing human feats in tragedies, and he shared a story he had read in his local newspapers when the shootings occurred in Norway..

When the shooting started and people were running for their lives towards the sea and swimming for their lives as well, amidst the bullets flying around.. Some people camping on the other side of the island, hearing the shooting and seeing people desperatly running towards the sea, they took their own boats and went midsea to meet them, they were literally putting themselves from a place of safety to the line of fire to try and save some people swimming in the sea..:eek:
They just couldnt just witness seeing the horror and not do anything, i guess it is like Maria says to her son in the sea " even if it is the last thing we do.. "

What I'm left with? Human beings are capable of remarkable things when it comes to saving their own and other people's lives !!:T:T

Seanymph

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

Anyone complaining about this film who have watched the likes of Schindler's List, Days of Glory, Saving Private Ryan etc. Jeez even Titanic! Massive hypocrites.

Who's to say what an acceptable length of time is before a film based on true events is released? Just because the above mentioned happened many more years ago doesn't make them any less harrowing for the survivors and families of the dead.

I have made a point of not watching any of them - I consider it a small act of respect for those involved not to gawp at someone making money from them, in fact I'm proud of it.

suburbanwifey

Speaking as a survivor of a 'catastrophic event' 5 years ago, an awful lot of people who knew me, knew of me, heard of me in real life wanted to ask me various questions, they all had a morbid fascination with the terrible event I survived. They all wanted explicit details of what it was like, what I felt like, the fear, the terror, the pain etc. I had difficulty talking about it all, but others didn't have difficulty asking. Disbelief tinged with curiosity is what made others question me insistently and I imagine that is what will drive cinema goers to see this film. I think there can be great hope and love to come out of a traumatic event, its makes others who haven't endured it see that people can and do survive and reduces fear maybe. I would go see this film, possibly I would view it more diligently than someone who hasn't been through a traumatic event as I would want to see if they portray the victims reactions and feelings accurately etc. So, my experience of surviving a tragedy showed to me that everyone who knew me and many who had never met me but sought me out (media etc) who I told to go the hell away and no I don't want your thousands of pounds to have my hell entertain the masses, thank you very much!) wanted details and much more detail than I was able emotionally to give.

suburbanwifey

sammyjammy wrote: »

It may have been tastefully done but its about 60 years too early and to say it wasn't made for entertainment is laughable. It was made to make money, end of. They don't make movies for the good of the community.

I had 32 reporters with cameras and flash camped outside my door for 3 days, just trying to get even just a picture of me, they all wanted to make money off me and the tragedy I had survived. Everyone around me made money out of the tragedy I survived. It made me sick, the leeches who made money out of it and those that tried desperately to do so - not one of those media animals who stalked me gave a hoot at the trauma it caused me at the time. And I am including the beeb in this as well! TV, Papers, Radio, all leeches who pray on tragedies and such as what this film portrays and the one I survived etc. Its all to make money!

For many people who survive catastrophic events, the worst is to come, when they all start chasing you *for them* to make money out of your hell.

The movie industry is no different, I am sure they will make many millions from this movie.

zaksmum

Tried to see this film last night but it was sold out so we saw Life of Pi instead which was absolutely BRILLIANT.

marmitepotato

Any one seen 'The Pianist'. I am still thinking about it a week after I watched it.

tenke

marmitepotato wrote: »

Any one seen 'The Pianist'. I am still thinking about it a week after I watched it.

I saw "The Pianist " like 3 times, great film and Adrian Brody really deserved that Oscar for his performance !!:j:T

marisco_2

tenke wrote: »

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

I am hoping I will feel the same way when I go and see the film. I think few people, myself included, can truly appreciate the enormity of this disaster. I have watched the documentaries over the years, on when the tsunami struck but it still doesn't hit home with me quite how awful it all was. I would like to understand it more and hope this film will give me an informed perspective.