Review the impossible lo imposible the tsunami that hit southeast asia on december 26 th 2004 was sudden and catastrophic, and surely no film will give us a closer approximation of that experience than the impossible. Bayona y protagonizada por naomi watts, ewan mcgregor, tom holland, samuel joslin y oaklee pendergast. In other words, a typical disaster movie with a lot of uninvolving crowd scenes instead, director j. The film, the first movie dramatisation of the disaster, is tipped for oscar success. It is based on the experience of maria belon and her family in the 2004 indian ocean tsunami.
Bayona focuses on a single family consisting of the parents. She was portrayed in the 2012 film the impossible by naomi watts with the. The impossible 2012 tsunami disaster movie wave special effects consultants edinburgh designs ltd duration. The title and the rest of the credits do not appear until the end of the film. The story of a tourist family in thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 indian ocean tsunami. Maria belon news newspapers books scholar jstor october 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message. However, the impossible is a film of two halves, and the second half of the picture is markedly less interesting. The moment in which the wave surged inland with such ferocity is captured through an exceptional combination of cgi work and.
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