Warning: Article not the usual level of 'funny'!
The Impossible is an 'epic' film based on a horrific real life natural disaster that occurred just over eight years ago. An earthquake in the Indian Ocean thrust a tsunami inland killing over 200,000 human beings who had lives, family and friends. The Impossible, eight years later and with a massive budget, reinacts these events from one family's perspective - for our entertainment. Movie-goers pay good money, sit in a dark room for nearly two hours and watch actors run about pretending to be in a life-changing, unimaginably grim scenario that is the sort of thing that usually 'only ever happens in the movies'. They then leave the cinema tweeting about much they 'cried', perhaps forgetting that they'd probably have cried a lot more had they or a loved one really been there. What is the message The Impossible and films like it are trying to portray, and how much time should pass between the disaster and the movie based on it? Generally, is this cinematic trend doing everyone involved more harm than good?
