December 26, 2014 Indian Ocean Tsunami (South Asian Tsunami)

Adella 2022-03-21 09:01:36

The protagonist's family goes to Khao Lak, Thailand for Christmas Eve holiday, but encounters a natural disaster that has never happened in a hundred years. The family is swept away by the big waves, and the corpses are scattered everywhere.

In front of nature, everything seems so small and powerless. At first, the mother was with the eldest son, and the father was just with the two younger sons. Everyone has grown up a lot in this disaster. During the phone call, the eldest son helped find someone, and the second son promised his father to take care of his younger brother. When the brothers met again, they shouted really loudly. After several clinical trials with the mother, she finally gave her the courage to live. Did she survive? Find your own family. When my mother was undergoing surgery, the film's expression techniques were repeated over and over in the desperate and suffocating deep sea, with a knife and a knife scraping the residual blade on the body. Out of the water, and finally on the plane, looking out the window, the sea is still calm, and the home is in a mess.

The Asian nurse sister at the disaster relief station likes it very much. It's better to have money and buy insurance.

The emotion of the film is in place, the disaster stimulus comes quickly at the beginning, and the middle and later stages are a bit repetitive and clichéd.

Adapted from a true story, when it's my turn, everyone wants to be conventional, and conventional is not a luxury.

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  • Lottie 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    There are tears in the whole film, but the filming is too simple and superficial, lacks thematic connotation, and the director cannot see the huge trauma caused by the disaster. The whole film is supported by Ivan and Naomi + three cute babies.

  • Hugh 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    Gotta give Naomi's performance a star

The Impossible quotes

  • Henry Bennett: Did you set the alarm before we left?

    Maria Bennett: Yeah, it was the last thing I did.

    Henry Bennett: No, I was the last one to leave. I was the last one to leave, and I'm sure I didn't set it.

    Maria Bennett: No darling, I was the last one out, and I did. I promise.

    Henry Bennett: You sure?

    Maria Bennett: Yup.

    Henry Bennett: K.

    Henry Bennett: [after a long pause] No, no, I was the last one, 'cause I went back in, and that means the alarm is not set, 'cause I didn't set it.

    Maria Bennett: Well, um, I guess that means we'll be coming home to a large bunch of hippies sleeping in our bed.

    Henry Bennett: What, just like your old college days?

  • Lucas Bennett: [Trembling and distraught, after he and Maria have managed to take refuge on a tree in the rushing wave] I thought I was a brave kid, Mum...! I'm scared!

    [sobbing]

    Maria Bennett: [Equally shaken, moves closer to embrace Lucas] Shhh...!

    [whispers into his ear]

    Maria Bennett: I'm scared, too...!

    Lucas Bennett: [Anxious] Is it over...?

    [Maria is looking around]

    Lucas Bennett: Is it over...?

    Maria Bennett: [Looks around nervously as the wave recedes] I don't know...! I don't know...!