The impossible

I went to watch this film with my family yesterday. I can honestly say i never stopped crying all the way through. It really tugged at your heart strings as nothing was held back we all saw the reality of the situation and nothing was hidden from us as an audience and we where all confronted with this horrible traumatic event and we saw every element of how it affected the family and what was happening to them. We see how a family who have been ripped apart learn how to stay strong through injury and try to get each other through the incident. After watching the film i then asked my family what scene they remember and why. The scene that every one of my family remembered most was when they are in a tree waiting for help a little boy named Daniel that they rescued starts to stroke the mothers head and stroke her arm comforting her. I think this scene was memorable because of the role reversal. It is not something we would ever expect to see during such a horrific event because stereotypically the mother would comfort the child who is probably scared as they are not old enough to understand. However in this scene we see the little boy comforting the mother this is a countertype and is not a known scene that the audience is presented with and has a massive effect on the audience. I also liked a scene where the wave first hit because instead of having loads of quick cuts and shots of her struggling and making us focus on her as a character they presented the characters feelings differently. When we see the wave first hit and a close up of the character the screen then just went black. It was black for a matter of seconds which is quite a long period of time which really drew in the audience from curiosity as we don't know what happened to the character or where she is or if the wave has already happened now. But after the black scene we start to hear the diagetic sound of the water and we see slight brown colours enter the frame and then we see the surrounding water and the camera bobs up and down out of the water which reflects the character drowning and being swallowed up by the water and trying to get to the surface to breathe. I though this was a brilliant way to make the audience feel connected and a part of the traumatic incident and this creates a real emotional connection and makes the storyline all of a sudden quite personal to the viewer. Me myself was holding my breathe as i was watching it although at first i didn't realise i was doing it it just felt like a natural reaction as they had stimulated the feeling of drowning using the scenes they did and the camera movement.