MOVIE REVIEW: AUGUST RUSH

Many a times life's moment have ignited curiousity amongst us, but its only a few times when our passion was ignited. "August Rush" happens to be that two hour phenomenon.

Little did I know that this movie would have had that profound effect on me when I first watched it yesterday night after getting a copy of the movie. Excellent is the name I shall give.

Ok first, the a little briefing of the movie.
Evan Taylor or should I say August Rush(played by freddie Highmore), is a orphan. Rest of the boys in the orphanage call him a freak, why because he thinks he can listen to music,he can listen to his parents and that is what connects him to them. They bully him, taunt him, but he never gives up his faith in music.

So one day he he follows the music,leaves his orphanage in search of his parents. He believes music will take him to them and he lands up in the main city of New York. There starts his adventure and his tryst with music. He is discovered to be a child prodigy by first a street man,called wizard(played by Robbin Williams), who makes alot of money using his talent. Later he lands up in the Julliard school of Music where his talent is cared and honed.

Mean while his parents, who actually had met each other during their teenage days, are both musicians. His mother Lyla Novacek(played by the gracious Keri Russell) is a cellist and his father Louis Connelly(played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a club singer and guitarist at the local bar. Both are great lovers of music. One day they meet at a party where they end up spending the night together. Lyla's father, the next day takes her away and doesn't let the two unite. But Lyla gets pregnant, and one day she has an acident,and in the hospital the baby August is born. But when Lyla regains her consciiousness, her father lies to her that her son is dead, but in reality,he sends him to an orphanage. Lyla and Louis live separately and both give up music as they feel incompletele without eachother and so does their music. After 11 years,Lyla learns the truth from her dying father and goes in search for her son, ultimately its music that unites the three of them.

"The music is all around us,all we have to do is open ourselves and listen."

Such is the beauty of life,explained in its simplicity.The story very well told, the movie is a musical treat,and emotional journey told through the life of a young eleven year old.The direction and screen play was great. Hardly did I feel the movie had any mistakes. This is a movie that cannot be judged by mind,but by the virtue of your heart and intuition, maybe that is what is love. The only feeling that could describe you after you have watched this movie is contentment. Its been long that such a movie was made, which takes us in a long journey within ourselves,helps us find that softer side of ourselves,telling the brilliance of life in the simplest of words,leaving your destiny in the hands of the angels as you move in the journey with the young August for two hours in the movie.

Watch it, thats what I can say, sail through this ocean of emotions, for the words are not enough to describe,for sometimes,the best things in life are experienced, and learnt through the language of words.