Powerful and moving

Rating: 10/10 (9 June 2013)

This is the best movie I have seen in a while. I recommend it highly.
It portrays what happens to one family after the horrific tsunami that hit SE Asia on Boxing Day in 2004. It is set in beautiful resort in Thailand which the family escape to from Japan for Christmas.
I think it shows how some people dealt with the trauma, and shows it in a life-like manner. You follow each breath of the survivors, and it is easy to see yourself as one of the characters in the way it has been filmed. You also catch a glimpse of many survivors, their search for lost loved ones, and the huge overload on the emergency services.
I didn't expect it to portray the difficulties post-incident in such a touching way.
The film brought tears to my eyes, but it did not leave me depressed.