The Impossible, Juan Antonio Bayona's new tsunami flick, begins with a title card informing us that what we are about to witness is a true story of a family's experience during the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand. Everything but "true story" fades away, and the words just lingers there ? "true story... true story..." ? as if to hypnotize us and inoculate the film against any claims of sensationalism. There is then a rumble, a churning sound, something growing louder and louder. ...
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