waves of empathy

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2012)

The Impossible exists for all the untold stories.
It is a horror film. What is brilliant is that it frees the horror film of its chains by confronting real-life horror.
People are jaded by constant exposure to shocking images on television, the horror is safely held on a small screen and even the most empathetic and sensitive soul becomes disconnected from what they are watching, that person, those people, far away, not me...
The Impossible brings humanity and genius - the director, writer, actors - to a subject it seemed 'impossible' to elevate above the expected melodrama, emotional detachment and voyeurism.
Tracy Chapman sang 'All that you have is your soul', that sums up this film; a work of the soul, bared, stripped and beautiful.
When the bottom drops out of your life we are reminded that empathy, human kindness and love are pure and miraculous, and worth celebrating.