I can't believe that after finding two of his three children alive, he left them alone. The oldest was only 7! He left them to fend for themselves in a strange country. He's lucky he weren't found dead.
You are literally too stupid to insult.
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No, he didn't leave them alone.
he had an adult from the resort promise to watch over them.
You do realize that this is a TRUE story
he found his wife and all three of his children.
I guess that you would not look for your spouse and child?
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He had no idea, nor did anyone else, if there would be more waves, maybe even worse than what had already hit. That is precisely why everyone was ordered to seek higher ground and were being evacuated.
The fact that the three of them were alive was nothing short of a miracle. He had to make a tough choice and he did. I guess he made the right one.
You obviously don't have kids.
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Obvious IF the father was dead, it would be a completely different scenario, and a complete moot point since that didn't happen.
By your thinking it's OK for me to leave my kids BY THEMSELVES in Times Square while I take off...I'm mean they are surrounded by other people.
No, I'm not divorced, it was my husband who brought up the fact parents shouldn't leave their kids, especially ones that young.
I'm through having a conversation with a wittless wonder. If you don't already have kids, get sterilize. If you do, God help them, because you won't.
You are literally too stupid to insult.
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By your thinking it's OK for me to leave my kids BY THEMSELVES in Times Square while I take off...I'm mean they are surrounded by other people.Funny thing is, if you left your kids in Times Square, they'd be perfectly fine in the long run. If they were lost and alone, with no idea where to go, they'd find their way to the police. So, when you were finished with your life-or-death errand, which is what Obi-Wan was doing, you'd speak with a cop, and would soon be reunited with your kids. The odds of anyone in Times Square hurting a child beyond accidentally stepping on their toes are very, very slim. share
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I agree. He should have taken his children to a safe spot like the hospital and made sure they had no internal or external injuries and after that tried to look for his wife and other son.
I also understand he was in a crazy situation and trying to make what he thought were the best choices but to let go of your 2 small children who are safe in your arms to search for other family members who you may be dead already or lost to the sea didn't make much sense to me. What if now, the 2 children you found safe are never seen again?
Not to mention the woman who agreed to keep an eye on them left them.
You must be a hit with the ladies...
shareAs a father of two young children I can honestly say I would NEVER have sent my children away, not in a million, gajillion years. I realize it was a hard choice for the character, but it wouldn't even have been a choice for me. Non-negotiable, not even a smidgen of a consideration.
shareHe definitely shouldn't have left his other two children alone:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-comp romise-children-and-children-wit/2012/dec/31/natural-disaster-throws-c hildren-arms-pedophiles/
I would have kept my child with me.
In the film, I got the impression that he regretted leaving his kids with a stranger, especially when he encountered that person during his search and the kids weren't with her.
I agree I'm sure he said "sorry for leaving you" to the 2 younger kids when he found them?
He shouldn't have left them, they were too young to cope with that. To put that responsibility on the 8 year olds shoulders was too much, especially considering what he'd just been through. It would have been extremely traumatic for him.
He should have stayed with the 2 he knew were alive at all costs.
And btw I'm a mum of 2!
Must be an easy decision to make when you are warm and comfortable in your house watching a movie.
Take me as I am, or leave me the way you found me
This.
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Pfft. That's not what I would do were I in this life-or-death situation! Dumb movie!
I agree. That tanked the entire movie for me. I know it is a true story and all but what the frick was that guy thinking?! The majority of victims don't die during the Tsunami but after it. Not enough untainted food/water, the corpses decomposing and nowhere to pardon my crassness here "stack them". You see volunteers flying in wearing masks not because of the smell (there is no not smelling that) but because just breathing the air makes you sick. Insects spread all sorts of crap. Oh and nut jobs and criminals don't just take a few days off because of something like that. But hey lets hand over two small children to some foreign stranger and we will just play a game of Marko Polo after I find my spouse and other kid both of which are probably not even alive. No what you do is go to victim triage/I am alive and looking for whoever area with your two kids, take care of your kids and wait DUH! Gee honey I am so glad your alive! Whats that? The boys? Oh well I found them both but now they are dead because the stranger I dumped them on either killed, abandon, or was unable to protect them and they found them dead in a ditch. They aren't sure how they died without an autopsy and there won't be one because well they are two of the 1000 plus people that are dead and getting tripped over right now. Could have been illness, could have been internal injury, could have been dehydration/starvation, maybe some nut raped them drown them and tossed them in that ditch. The important thing to remember is that I found you and we still have one kid left. No sane caring responsible parent pulls what that guy did. The fact that they didn't die hardly makes it excusable. Had I been the wife by the time I was done with him he would have wished the tsunami had taken him out.
shareHe did say when he found them again that he regretted leaving them.
But I don't think it was weird that he left them, he could only imagine that his wife and eldest son was under a rubble needing and waiting for help. And he knew his youngest two barely had a scratch. But I do think he could've done a better job when he did leave them (just asking some useless random woman on the truck, why not the guy that he had previously trusted with his kids?). The best would've been to leave them with another family (no way would they let their kids be taken somewhere unknown like the woman he trusted did).
Also, I thought it was a bit weird that when he found out that the kids were taken somewhere else than originally planned that he just let it be and continued the search.
The guy is in shock, under terrible stress, thinking his wife and son are some of the corpses both he and his kids are seeing everywhere. He still wants to find them. Why expose his kids to anymore horrors that he has to face to try to find his wife and kids?
Decisions made under such conditions are not always thoughtful. I keep remembering one man, who, when a massive mudslide destroyed his village, and considering the weather was not getting any better and him wanting to stay to keep searching for his family, let his young daughter get evacuated in a harrowing helicopter lift.
Poor dad. It was only later he realized that his daughter was a toddler, she had no identification on her, she couldn't speak and he didn't know where she had been taken. He never found her.
"Can you keep a secret? Can you know something and never speak of it again?"