“生きる希望は、奪えない。”
2004年に発生したスマトラ沖大地震で被災した一家の実体験をもとに、ナオミ・ワッツ、ユアン・マクレガーら出演で映画化した感動のヒューマン・ストーリー。バカンス先のリゾート地で津波に巻き込まれ、はなればなれになった5人家族を描く。
映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
製作費: $45,000,000 (68億円)
興行収入: $198,100,000 (297億円)
推定収支: $153,100,000 (230億円)
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監督: フアン・アントニオ・バヨナ
脚本: María Belón / Sergio G. Sánchez
制作: Belén Atienza / Álvaro Augustín / Ghislain Barrois
撮影監督: オスカル・ファウラ
制作会社: Apaches Films / Telecinco Cinema / La Trini / Canal+ España
Incredible story with remarkable performances by Naomi Watts and Tom Holland and amazing staging. However, Bayona repeats the same mistakes from other movies like "The Orphanage" when he creates an uneasy situation through some unexplained weird behavior.
Another amazing story based in truth. I think it's called The Impossible because those sets must have been near impossible.
After a bit of a bumpy flight to Thailand, a family arrive in Phuket for what ought to have been a dream holiday. Well mother nature had other plans and a earthquake far out at sea generated a series of tsunamis that we now know killed almost a quarter of a million people. That could well have included "Henry" (Ewan McGregor), "Maria" (Naomi Watts) and their children "Lucas" (Tom Holland), "Simon" (Oaklee Pendergast) and "Thomas" (Samuel Joslin) but despite being out in the first wave of the encroaching water, they somehow manage to cling onto anything that will float, to the sturdy trunks of the trees and though separated do survive. That's just the start of their troubles, though - "Maria" is severely injured and with their elder and quite smart son "Lukas". The others - so we are fortunately spared much of the mediocre McGregor - are elsewhere with all looking to repatriate amidst the chaos of debris and mayhem left by the now retreated seawater. The thrust of the drama features mother and son, with quite decent and convincing efforts from both as they must make it to some semblance of safety and then try to get much needed medical help. It's based on the real event, and the photography quite potently illustrates just how devastating the waves were on these low lying islands that were designed for pleasure and tranquility - there were no sea defences and the structures ill-prepared for the sheer power of the swell. There's a spirit to the narrative too - the locals and the tourists all mucking together to help in a veritable hotchpotch of languages and priorities. The pacing is frenetic at times, lingering at others and that also helps give us a sense of the perils faced by all trying to come to terms with the destruction and this is a surprisingly better watch than I was expecting.
Movies like this make me very sad. 😭😭😭 They also frighten me. The acting is superb.
64/100 A biographical, survive-against-the-odds film about a family who were at the Orchid Resort in Thailand when the Boxing Day Tsunami hit. This is a great film for its type with fantastic acting, especially a teenage Tom Holland who supplied his role with far more depth than you'd expect. I don't normally like survival films and watched this one because of my curiosity over the event. Said event was short and sweet and the rest of the film dragged out the anguish and misery far too much for me but, if you like this type of film, it's one you'll quite likely enjoy. -- DrNostromo.com
