After a Big Storm Two Brothers Get Separated and Then They Find Each Other Again
| The Impossible | |
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| Directed by | J. A. Bayona |
| Screenplay by | Sergio G. Sánchez |
| Story past | Jonas Runge |
| Produced by |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Óscar Faura |
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| Music past | Fernando Velázquez |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures[1] |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 113 minutes[2] |
| Country | Spain |
| Languages | English language Spanish |
| Budget | $45 1000000[three] |
| Box office | $198.1 1000000[one] [four] |
The Impossible (Spanish: Lo imposible ) is a 2012 English-language Spanish disaster drama movie directed by J. A. Bayona and written by Sergio Thousand. Sánchez. Information technology is based on the feel of María Belón and her family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It features an international cast including Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland in his film debut.
The film received positive reviews from critics for its direction and its acting, especially for Watts who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden World Honor for Best Extra – Motion Flick Drama, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Thespian in a Leading Role.
Plot
In 2004, Doctor Maria Bennett, her hubby Henry, and their three sons Lucas, Thomas, and Simon go on a Christmas holiday to Khao Lak, Thailand. Arriving on Christmas Eve, they settle in and begin to relish the make new Orchid Embankment Resort. 2 days after on Boxing Solar day, the massive Indian Ocean tsunami inundates the area.
Maria and Lucas eventually emerge from the swirling water and find 1 some other, with Maria having sustained serious injuries to her leg and chest. They assistance a toddler, Daniel, from the wreckage and are shortly institute by locals who dress and transfer them to a infirmary in the city of Takua Pa. Daniel is separated from them during the journey. At the hospital, Maria encourages Lucas to help others find their family members while she goes into surgery for her chest injuries.
Meanwhile, Henry and the two younger boys accept also survived and are together. Henry leaves Simon and Thomas with another family who are then taken to the mountains for safety by local relief crews. Henry stays behind to search for Maria and Lucas in the resort's rubble. While out looking, injured and alone, he is picked up by a passer-past and driven to a nearby bus station with other survivors. Communication facilities are deficient, but a European tourist named Karl, who has also been separated from his family, lends Henry his cell phone to contact his relatives in England. Henry promises Maria's father he volition look everywhere for his family and that he will detect them. Karl volunteers to accompany Henry to wait for Maria and Lucas likewise as his own family, who were at the beach when the tsunami hit.
While Maria is in surgery, her medical chart is mixed up with a patient named Muriel Barnes, who has died. Lucas returns to notice his mother's bed empty and is and then taken to a tent where children without families are kept rubber. The mistake is discovered when Lucas cannot identify any of the dead woman's jewelry and he is later on reunited with his mother, who had been moved to a private room in the ICU. While he waits in the hospital, Lucas finds Daniel, who has been reunited with his male parent.
Henry and Karl search for their families in various places before they get in at the hospital, where Henry is given five minutes to look. Karl gives him a piece of paper with the names of his family members. A vehicle conveying Thomas and Simon also stops outside the hospital, and the boys become off so Simon can urinate. From a distance, Lucas recognizes his father, and while searching for him in the chaotic crowd outside, Lucas'southward brothers spot him and they reunite. Henry finds the iii of them together. He learns that Maria is in the hospital, ready to undergo more surgery for her leg. As the anesthesia puts her to sleep, Maria experiences flashbacks of how she came to be injured and how she surfaced the water. While she is in surgery, Lucas tells Henry he has something really of import to tell Maria.
The following twenty-four hours, the family boards an ambulance airplane to Singapore so Maria may receive further medical treatment. A representative from their insurance company, Zurich Insurance, assures them everything volition exist taken care of as Lucas sees countless people outside the infirmary looking through patient lists. On the plane, Lucas tells his female parent that Daniel is prophylactic with his father. Maria cries and looks out the window at the anarchy left backside equally the plane takes off.
Bandage
- Naomi Watts as Maria, a physician and the mother of the Bennett family.
- Ewan McGregor as Henry, the father of the Bennett family.
- Tom Holland as Lucas, the 12-year-erstwhile son.
- Samuel Joslin as Thomas, the seven-and-a-half-year-old son.
- Oaklee Pendergast as Simon, the five-year-quondam son.
- Marta Etura as Simone
- Sönke Möhring as Karl, a German human trying to find his wife and daughter. He joins Henry to find their families.
- Geraldine Chaplin equally the Old Adult female
- Johan Sundberg every bit Daniel
Production
The flick was a co-production of Spanish picture show companies Apaches Entertainment and Telecinco Cinema, and employed much of the crew from The Orphanage, including the director, writer, production director, cinematographer, composer, and editor.[5] Filmed between the Ciudad de la Luz studio in Alicante (Spain) and Thailand.[vi] Principal photography began 23 August 2010 in Alicante and continued in October in Thailand.[seven] [8]
Director Juan Antonio Bayona decided not to specify the nationalities of the chief characters in guild to create a universal movie in which nationalities were irrelevant to the plot.[9] [10] [11] [12]
The tsunami was recreated with a mixture of digital effects and real h2o surges filmed in boring motion created in a h2o tank in Kingdom of spain using miniatures that were destroyed by a huge wave. Bayona committed to working with existent water rather than a computer-generated wave because he wanted the story to be accurate. This meant Watts and Holland spent five weeks filming physically and psychologically demanding scenes in a massive h2o tank.[xiii] Holland, aged fourteen at the fourth dimension of filming, afterwards described it equally a "scary environs ...You can imagine how tiring and cruel that was."[14]
Release
Warner Bros. released the film in Espana on 11 October 2012. The United States distribution rights were pre-bought by Summit Entertainment.[vii] A teaser trailer was released on 26 December 2011.[15] After a full-length English linguistic communication trailer was released on twenty August 2012, a Usa release date of 21 December 2012 was confirmed by Summit.[16] It was released on 11 Oct 2012 in Espana and in Ireland and the U.k. on 1 Jan 2013. The film was released in the United States on 4 Jan 2013 and was made available by Summit Entertainment through a website streaming the film to members of SAG-AFTRA for consideration of the SAG awards.[17]
It was released on DVD/Blu-ray in the Us and Canada on Tuesday, nineteen March 2013,[eighteen] with a European release thirteen May 2013.[19]
Reception
Disquisitional response
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approving rating of 81% based on 202 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of 7.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The screenplay isn't quite equally powerful as the direction or the acting, but with such an astonishing real-life story at its heart, The Impossible is never less than compelling."[20] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating to reviews, the film had an average score of 73 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews."[21]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a perfect four-star rating, praising the performances of Watts and McGregor, and the direction of Bayona. He chosen it "i of the best films of the year".[22]
Deborah Immature of The Hollywood Reporter gave a very positive review, praising the performances of the two leading stars, stating that "Watts packs a huge charge of emotion as the battered, always-weakening Maria whose tears of pain and fear never appear fake or idealised. McGregor, cut and streaked with excessive blood he seems also distraught to wash abroad, keeps the tension razor-sharp as he pursues his family unit in a vast, shattered landscape." About the motion-picture show she added, "The Incommunicable is one of the well-nigh emotionally realistic disaster movies in recent memory – and certainly one of the most frightening in its ballsy re-creation of the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami."[23]
Justin Chang of Diversity magazine gave a positive review, praising Bayona'southward directing and Sánchez's writing: "Collaborating over again after their impressive 2007 debut feature, The Orphanage, Bayona and Sanchez become many things right hither, starting with their decision to eschew a more panoramic view of the disaster to follow one family's journey from showtime to finish." Almost the performances of the principal cast members he added, "Watts has few equals at carrying physical and emotional extremes, something she again demonstrates in a mostly crippled part, and McGregor, in 1 of his meliorate contempo performances, manages to turn a simple telephone call home into a small-scale aria of heartbreak. Kingdom of the netherlands, in his live-action bigscreen debut, is wonderful equally a kind, somewhat curt-tempered kid who nonetheless has plenty to learn, setting the tone for similarly heartrending turns by young Joslin and Pendergast."[24]
A hamlet well-nigh the coast of Sumatra lies in ruins, vii days after the tsunami that struck South East Asia
Damon Wise of The Guardian gave the picture four stars out of five. He too praised the performances, stating that "as Maria, Watts is both brave and vulnerable, and her scenes with the immature Lucas (the fantabulous Tom Holland) are among the motion picture'south all-time, with developed and child now unexpected equals, the mother humbled, the son rising to the claiming. McGregor, meanwhile, gives one of his best performances every bit the sad and desperate Henry, trying to play the hero, the provider, while knowing his cause is almost certainly lost." Most the film, he added: "Role of the appeal of this affecting and powerful drama is that it puts the viewer right in the moment at every phase, using authentic locations and tsunami survivors to hammer home the reality of this tragedy."[25]
Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film a "B-" grade and stated that the film "suffers from the greater trouble of emphasising a feel-expert plot within the context of mass destruction."[26]
According to The New York Times reviewer A. O. Scott, this narrowly-defined cinematic framing of the disaster through European and non Thai lenses represents "a troubling complacency and a lack of compassion in The Incommunicable," a movie which he found to be "less an examination of mass devastation than the tale of a spoiled holiday."[27]
Response from victims
Simon Jenkins, a British survivor from Portsmouth, wrote to The Guardian, stating the film is "beautifully accurate". This was in response to critics commenting that the film is "overdramatic" and "whitewashed". He says of the comments, "Every bit I must, I've never been the sort of person to revisit and analyse events of the past, but some of these articles frustrated me. Had this film been purely about the tale of a western middle form family's 'ruined' holiday so I would take agreed. For me, it was the verbal opposite. Rather than concentrating on the 'privileged white visitors', the film portrayed the profound sense of community and unity that I experienced in Thailand, with this family at the middle of it. Both for my (then) sixteen-yr-onetime cocky and the Belón family unit, it was the Thai people who waded through the settled water after the first moving ridge had struck to help individuals and families... The Thai people had only lost everything – homes, businesses, families – all the same their instinct was to help the tourists."[28]
Box office
The Impossible was a box office success. In Spain the film was released on 11 October 2012, and opened in 638 cinemas, grossing $11,569,306 on its opening weekend, ranking No. 1 with a per-cinema boilerplate of $xviii,134,[29] the highest-grossing opening weekend for a pic in Spain.[30] On its second weekend the movie remained at No. ane and grossed $9,016,065 with a per-movie house average of $14,022.[31] On its 3rd weekend it remained at No. one and made $five,768,184 with a per-cinema average of $9,098. The film concluded up earning $54,536,668 at the Castilian box office and $180,274,123 worldwide, compared with its estimated $45 million production budget.[32]
Accolades
See also
- Listing of Spanish films of 2012
- Survival film virtually the picture show genre, with a list of related films
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External links
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- The Impossible at Metacritic
- The Impossible at Box Part Mojo
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