August Rush

After 2 weeks being without a telly I finally have made it and got a new one this week and hallelujah I was able to watch a film yesterday! Yippie!

Evan Taylor is an 11 years old boy who lives in an orphanage. He doesn't know who his parents are, but he thinks that he can correspond with them through music, sound and rhythm he hears around him. Also he is convinced that as long as he believes in music he has a chance to be found by his parents. Thus he declines the possibility to be adopted.

Eventually he runs away from the orphanage and arrives in New York where he meets different people. There is "Wizard" who discovers Evan's musical talent and wants to make money out of him. Fortunately he also meets people who send him to the Juillard School to boost his talent.

However, all of them including Wizard teach him and help him how to handle and how to direct his musical skills.

Well, the end is a happy one and as predictable as you can imagine in a film, in which the protagonist is a young orphan on the search for his parents.

In my opinion the story was a bit strange and difficult to understand. Sometimes the story is unrealistic because the experiences Evan makes in New York are too extraordinary. Also I think to feel and behave like most of the charakters you must either be pathetic or stoned, or both...

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed the music in the film (except for the singing of Jonathan Rhys Meyers...). It was astonishing to experience average daily noise and rhythm - e.g. the average noise in busy streets of a city - dissolved and transformed into a piece of music.
Besides I appreciated that they played the Cello Concert of Sir Edward Elgar which is one of my favourites.