Emotional exploitation of the most vile and insensitive kind, The Impossible is an insult to the victims of the tragedy it depicts. Set in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 tsunami which devastated South East Asia, the film makes it abundantly clear that it was in fact the wealthy white people who were the real victims of the disaster, one which left almost a quarter of a million Thais, Indonesians, Sri Lankans and Indians dead and a further 1.6 million displaced. That Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) presumably had nothing but good intentions will provide absolutely zero comfort as you suffer through what is, without question, one of the most horrendously overwrought and unequivocally disrespectful films to be screened in cinemas this century.
Woefully heavy-handed from its very first frame, The Impossible begins with a title card reminding the audience that the tsunami actually happened – an act of condescension roughly equivalent to if a film about 9/11 informed us that that was a real thing, too. The preface also claims that the film is based on the experiences of a real life Spanish family, the words “true story” even lingering on the screen, as if to provide some additional dramatic weight.
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