The Impossible
Title : The Impossible
Running Time : 107 Minutes
Country : Spain, United States
Genre : Drama, Foreign, Nature
First Release Date : 21 Desember 2012 (Limited)
Studio : Summit Entertainment
Film Director : Juan Antonio Bayona
Producer : Belen
Atienza, Lopez Lavigne, Alvaro Augustin
Screenwriter : Sergio Garcia Sanchez
Budget : $45 Million
Realese Date : 9
September 2012 (TIFF), 11 October 2012 (Spain),
11
January 2013 (Wide)
Cast
:
- Ewan McGregor as Henry Bennett, the father of the Bennett family.
- Tom Holland as Lucas Bennett, the 12-year-old son of Maria and Henry.
- Samuel Joslin as Tomas Bennett, the seven-and-a-half-year-old son of Maria and Henry.
- Oaklee Pendergast as Simon Bennett, the 5-year-old child of Maria and Henry.
- Sönke Möhring as Karl Schweber, a German man trying to find his wife and daughter. He joins Henry to find their families.
- Geraldine Chaplin as a 73-year-old woman who talks to Tomas about the stars, after the flood caused by the tsunami.
Production :
The film was a co-production of Spanish film companies Apaches Entertainment and Telecinco Cinema, and employed much of the same crew from The Orphanage, including the director, writer, production manager, cinematographer, composer, and editor. Principal photography began 23 August 2010, in Alicante, Spain, and continued in October in Thailand.
Director Juan Antonio Bayona decided
not to specify the nationalities of the main characters in order to create a
universal film in which nationalities were irrelevant to the plot.
The tsunami was recreated with a
mixture of digital effects and real water surges using miniatures that were
destroyed by a huge wave created in a water tank in Spain. Bayona committed to
working with real water, rather than a computer generated wave, because he
wanted the story to be authentic. This meant actors Naomi Watts and Tom Holland
spent five weeks filming physically and psychologically demanding scenes in a
massive water tank.16-year-old Holland later described it as a "scary
environment ...You can imagine how tiring and brutal that was.
The film marks the second
collaboration between Watts and McGregor after appearing together in the 2005
film Stay.
Plot :
The Impossible
The
imposible movie is taken from a true story, the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia
on December 26, 2004 with the death of the victim reached 230 thousand
people. This story lifted from a true story of victims who survived that took place in
Thailand. That makes this film so
interesting is the use of Combined Original Image incidence December 26, 2004
with a new design. The film won many
awards, including the Hollywood Film Festival for Best Actor category.
The
film stars Naomi Watts who plays Maria Bennett , a doctor from England who was
vacationing with her husband Henry, played by Ewan Mc Gregor and his son
Lucas played by Tom Holland. Thomas,
played by Samuel Joslin, and Simon played by Oaklee Pendergast.
At
first their holiday like the other family's holidays, They enjoy the calm waves
and beautiful resort. They opened Christmas gifts and then release the balloons
into the sky, everything looks perfect as expected.
But
when the next day on the morning of December 26, when Maria family relaxes in
around the middle of the pool after their Christmas festivities the night
before, starting to sound strange roar from the beach which followed the fall
of the palm trees which was followed by the arrival of large waves that hit the
resort and surrounding areas. The
tsunami hit Thailand.
Maria
separated from their families, he was carried away by the flow of water, then
he met with Lucas, his eldest son. And
they survived, but Maria suffered severe injuries, after a long struggle they
were finally rescued by locals and taken to hospital. when in the hospital, Lucas separate with his mother.
In
other places, Henry, who previously was with Simon and Thomas were frantically
looking for Maria and Lucas around the pool last place they gather before the
Tsunami hit. Because the old not found,
Henry finally decided to go back to the resort to see Simon and Thomas for
evacuation. Henry was forced to part with her two children for the sake of
safety and Simon Thomas who had evacuated to a safer place first .
So
long for Mary and Henry Lucas in each hospital and the existing shelters to
find them, but the results remain the same, he still could not find the
existence of his wife and son. But when
Lucas was looking for drinking water for Maria, he saw a glimpse of the figure
of his father, he ran to found Henry, but he did not find the presence of his
father, when Lucas began frustrating to be able to find his father, he shouted
frusatasi then she faintly heard seseoarang call him is none other than Thomas
and Simon, not long later finally they met. Lucas saw his father from a
distance and then they together to see
Maria. So, they all finally together and Maria got a recommendation for
treatment at the renowned Hospital in Singapore. They boarded the plane to fly
to Singapore.
Our
Reception :
The Impossible is a heartwarming movie and make our tears fall. In this film there is a considerable
element of the excessive dramatization. and we are invited to feel the character has been played by a very brilliant by McGregor Watts and three smaller players are able to show the
best Performance. Salute to the special effects team were absolutely brilliant making tsunami tragedy seem real and so heartbreaking.
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