MYST #5: the Impossible

MYST

5-5 thumbs up

For my final movie in your spare time post I watched the movie The Impossible. Holy cow, this movie is extremely emotional. I cried about six times during this movie both sad and happy tears. The true story about a family on a journey to find one another after a tsunami that happened on their vacation. This foreign film, in my opinion, is the best of the year. The acting and makeup was the key factor in this movie and everyone did an outstanding job. Besides Naomi Watts the actors and actresses a not well known but, they will be. The director Juan Bayona is not very well know but, he will be because this movie will be very well known for a long time.

The scene that captured my attention the most was when the oldest son, Lucas, is going around the hospital helping other people find their kids, dad, mom, or friends. Why this stood out to me the most is because how Lucas ignored his own problems to help other people and I thought that was amazing. What Lucas did and how nice it was made this scene great. The camera work was very simple with no special affects and that was perfect because your mind only focuses on the actions of the characters and how great of a deed Lucas did. The world is filled with amazing people and this scene really showed how nice people can be. The scene was great because the message they were getting across was very touching.

This film was very simply shot. With great actors and great makeup the movie seems so real and legit. Honestly I believe that you could have filmed the movie with a couple of hand held HD cameras and put it together just because there was not very many special affects. But, the opening scene with the tsunami coming in and under water shots that might have been a little more complicated. And it was so amazing and so real that it made you believe that the movie was actually filmed during the tsunami. Their were a lot of close ups just so you see the reactions on the characters faces and the rest was group shots along with wide angle shots.

This film is a must see by everybody. The story is so touching and so amazing that I'd you don't like it you are not a human. Everyone will be attached to this move and at one point get teary eyed. I give it a 5-5 thumbs up because it was such an amazing story and very well filmed.