A few days ago I was talking about the movie "The Impossible" as a real case that shows the strength that our children can give us and how strong they are. Going back to this story that puts the hair on end when thinking that it is about the real story of a family, I wanted to raise a complicated situation that appears in the argument.
After the arrival of the tsunami that separates the family, the father is in the position to take care of his two young children or separate from them. go find the rest of your missing family: his wife and eldest son.
In the previous post I focused on the mother's relationship with her son (they occupy most of the footage as main protagonists), but we can also look at the father and his story.
One of our readers in the comments to the previous post told us that they put their hair on end when imagining that situation: the father decides to leave the two young children in a van, with other unknown adults, and stay to look for the rest of the family.
To make matters worse, the adults who had left their children lose them, which means that the children end up in another van with many other children without parents after the catastrophe.
I don't know what will be fiction and reality in this particular episode of family history, but I remember that the real mother, María Belón, commented in her interviews that they had to remove some elements of the film because they seemed too implausible.
It would be necessary to be in that situation (although we hope to never have to do it), but I imagine that I wouldn't leave one of my daughters alone to look for the other. I don't know how (and I repeat that it would have to be seen in this situation), but I would manage to look next to her.
It is very hard for the father, of course, I do not think it was an easy decision, but children when they are alone can not stop crying. Imagine two helpless little boys of seven and five, alone after the traumatic experience that just happened, and without the figure of their father.
Actually, the father thinks he leaves them safe (at least better than in the ruined environment of the devastated hotel on the coast) and believes that sending them with the help that has reached inland is the best. None are injured (unlike the other half of the family: the mother, who believes that her husband and other children have died, does not consider looking for them).
Of course, the father at the time of separating from his children promises to meet them again and in the end he succeeds, although not without certain vicissitudes and repenting almost at the moment of having left them alone.
In short, reality always surpasses fiction. What do you think of the father's decision? Would you separate from a part of your family? Should the age or condition of the children, the alternative of “companions” for them, have to do with that decision?
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