Wife watched the film 'The Impossible' last week and urged me to watch it. It's about the 2004 tsunami - 'you'll cry' she said. Just have. I have never watched such a harrowing film...the only now that's come close is Schlinder's List. Not a nice' watch by any stretch but gives what I imagine is a very realistic insight into what people must have gone through at the time. I suspect the ending would have been a rarity. She was right too.
Was on the TV a while back, was at home with family and we watched it as seemed to be the best thing on at the time. Yeah - harrowing really does sum it up well, the fact that one of my mates was out there and still has nightmares made it even more real
Is that the film that was out a few years ago with (I could be wrong) Ewan Magregor (spelt wrongly) in it?
Think it was about a child getting swept away?
Always morbidly fascinated by anything tsunami related as it really is natures power at its worse.
I thought it was a brilliant film... but not one I wanted to watch again. Hard going film!
Yeah, good film. Took my son to see it at the cinema on a weekday morning. The cinema was us 2 "lads" and loads of old biddies getting free cups of tea. Strange environment to watch such an intense film!
I watched a few hours of footage of the actual tsunami, that was intense enough, I don't think I could watch a dramatisation.
I was in Sri Lanka six months before the Tsunami. I cried on boxing day knowing that so much of what I had just seen had gone. We went back again (family) in 2010 and hotels on the coast still had tide marks on the second floor where the water had hit them.
Cry Freetown is another good but shocking one.
Cry Freedom is better
