Movie Response

Favorite movies: 

She's the Man

Titanic 

The Notebook 

Grease

Elf

What Maisy Knows

The Impossible

The Impossible Plot: 

A family goes to Thailand for their Christmas vacation. They are staying at a beachfront hotel and when they were playing in the pool, suddenly a tsunami hits and their family is separated. The mother and one son, Lucas, find each other while they are being thrown around by the strong waters. They get themselves to safety and some nice locals help them to a hospital to help Maria, the mother. The father, Henry, and the two younger boys, Thomas and Simon, stay with each other. Maria was doing fine in the hospital until she had surgery and lost a lot of blood from all her wounds. She is relocated and her name gets mistaken for another person and Lucas and her get separated and Lucas thought he lost his mom. Thankfully a nurse takes him to one of the rooms and his mom is there. Henry and his boys are still at the hotel where the tsunami hit and Henry sends his sons on a car that took them to the mountains to safety while he stayed there looking for his wife and other son. Lucas was wandering around the hospital looking for something and he sees his dad from a distance. He chases after him but couldn't find him and looses hope. While Lucas is outside, Thomas and Simon are in a car with many other kids outside of the hotel and they turn around to see their brother standing there. After they boys reunite with each other, their father comes up to them and they are all together. They go back inside the hotel to see Maria and she had to get another surgery. Thankfully it went well and they headed on a plane to go to Singapore were she could get better treatment. 

a. The promise in the film is when Henry arrives at the hospital where Maria and Lucas are. He looks for their names and couldn't find them. But, as he is about to leave, he sees Lucas' red ball from Christmas and he has a feeling to get out of the car. The other promise is when Thomas and Simon arrive at the hospital and Simon gets off really quick to go to the bathroom, right before they were going to leave they turn around and see Lucas. This brings them all together. 

b. What makes you connect to this film so deeply is that it is a true showing of what family means. They search for each other no matter how long it takes and they will go through anything to help each other. Henry had his younger boys go up to the mountain so he could look for his wife and other son. Lucas did everything for his mom from helping her climb the tree to safety to making sure she wouldn't die after coughing up blood. The truth that exists in this movie is how strong family bonds are. 

c. Maria the main character wants to find her family but doesn't believe they are alive. She also wants to make sure she stays alive for Lucas, because she believes he is the only thing that is left of them. Another very important character is Lucas. He strives to help everyone and anyone he can. He went through the whole hospital calling names so he can reunite people. Lucas just wants his mother to stay alive and once he sees his dad is alive he wants to find the rest of his family.