Film Review – The Impossible

Regular moviegoers, the weekend warriors, are repeatedly assaulted with
images of disaster, often taking on a global reach of apocalyptic doom.
One becomes desensitized to such grand illusions after a while,
regarding the end of the world as a time when the Capitol Records
building eats it, the Eiffel Tower takes a tumble, and Red Square is
reduced to rubble. “The Impossible” is a harrowing reminder of
real-world nightmares, with the film dramatizing the devastation and
anguish that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster in a
frightfully vivid manner, taking a refreshingly blunt perspective on the
challenges of survival and the tenacity of the human spirit. Although
it sounds like a downer, “The Impossible” is actually emotionally
satisfying and educational in a way, with director Juan Antonio Bayona
doing a superb job keeping the details vital and the characters
admirably resolute. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com