Reflection on Tsunami - The Aftermath

The movie: Tsunami the aftermath is the story tells us some about how people who still alive after the tsunami suffered for their other family members who passed away during that disaster that occurred at December, 2004. The tsunami hit the coast of Thailand (Thailand's Phuket and Khao Lak) and 12 other countries coast. When the movie came out, it is estimated that over 227,000 people were killed while 50000 bodies are still missing. The director of the film is Bharat Nalluri, and this movie shows me not only how beautiful is the nature and how many fun, relax, happiness that the nature can give to human beings but also how a terrible giant the nature can be as in that movie it also shows me the devastation, damages and many bodies lost lives. In 2006, that tsunami was defined as one of the most violent disaster in human’s history.

I feel that the tsunami that hit Khao Lak was a real catastrophe; it swept the whole village down with one big wave. Khao Lak is a very beautiful place that attracts many tourists to come and in that tsunami, most of the victims are foreigners. And the movie focuses on a fictional group of characters who've lost loved ones and those who are still looking for closure.

In that movie, I saw that how woman can became powerful or useless when they face with dangers as a British woman in the movie tried to not cry when she heard her husband was gone and her eldest son was in hospital with bad situation. She told her younger son to stay besides of his brother and she came to the embassy and talk to the authorized person of Britain for making her eldest son could go and have medical treatment in London as soon as possible. The woman with strong heart can be seen. The other side is that the responses of Susie as she blamed her husband for not protecting well their daughter, Martha. It was not fault of Ian because he also suffered the same like Susie. And another one is that Susie tried to run out from the reality by adopting the girl that looked like Martha when they arrived to the hospital and knew that the girl that they came to find was not their daughter. I can understand why Ian against her wife of adopts a daughter because he loved her daughter a lot and there was no one could replace the place of his daughter in his mind.

In this movie, I saw Thai monks are disposing of the dead bodies as per their customs and for public health, they are cast as heartless villains with no concern for people finding their loved ones without caring whether the corpses were foreigners or locals. I know why they burnt the bodies because they want to prevent the spread of diseases, but they had to respect the cultural differences. I felt it was bad for the people who were searching for their family members. They couldn’t know whether their family members were alive or died if they burned the bodies without noticing.     

As for the Thai government, they introduced Professor Meeko. He had uncovered the tsunami many years before, but hadn't known when it would strike. He told the government, and they refused to believe. They bribed him to keep his mouth shut and not hurt the government when the disaster really happened in 2004.

After watching this movie, I knew how important are preparing for preventing the disaster and educate the people how to stay safely during the events of disaster. All in all, this was a great and powerful movie. It really touched me and I would watch it again any time.