Movie review -
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
I chose to review this movie since it was 9/11 yesterday.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a film adaption of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer about the attacks on the World Trade Centre buildings in 2001.
The main character is a nine year old boy named Oskar Schell, (Thomas Horn) who has Asperger's Syndrome.
On September 11th, after the North tower collapsed, Oskar is let out of school early, while his mother Linda (Sandra Bullock), is still at work. He comes home to find five messages from his father, Thomas Schell (Tom Hanks), saying that he is in the World Trade Center.
The phone rings a sixth time but Oskar is too scared to answer. The machine records another message but it is cut off, and Oskar knows his father has been killed.
Oskar called 9/11 "The Worst Day". His mother struggles to explain what happened to his father and why it happened.
One year later, Oskar finds a vase in his father's closet. It crashes on the floor and inside is a key in an envelope with the "Black" written on it. He vows to find what the key fits into. Oskar finds 472 people with the last name Black to see if any knew his father.
Personally, I wouldn't say I enjoyed this movie, but I think I really learnt a lot more about 9/11. It's really interesting to see what it was like for someone who has lost someone in the attacks, especially through the view of a child with Asperger's Syndrome.
You really get to see how the family deals with their loss after seeing Oskar's close relationship with his father.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to everyone, because it is very depressing, but at the end it is a very touching story.
