Niel Patrick E.

Pagulayan
HRDM 2-ID

August Rush

August Rush is the kind of movie the whole heartedly believes in its
characters and its story that it asks any kind of disbelief not only be merely
suspended, but expelled into oblivion. There exists such a thing as good
sentimentality and bad sentimentality and if it is said that good sentimentality
depends on having its heart in the right place, the movie boldly takes that idea
literally and sets itself to the very thing our heartbeat constantly, naturally
dictates: music. "I believe in, music the way some people believe in fairy tales,"
the hero says in the opening and this story is a real fairy tale for music lovers.

Obviously, not all music lovers may have the musical prodigy's talent of
orphan Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore), but they will relate to his fundamental
conviction that music will always be heard by someone. In Evan's case, it is that
his biological parents who were also musicians will hear him if he plays and he
will be reunited with them through the power of music. That is also just how his
parents, Lyla (Keri Russell) and Louis (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) met and fell in
love at first sight

Things fell apart after they were, together for only one night, however, as
we see Lyla's father, Thorna s (VIilliam Sadler) forcing his will upon her to go to
Juilliard and concentrate on becoming a professional cellist. Then, of course, she
is pregnant after that brief encounter with Louis, who is a lead rock guitarist and
singer or a small band, and Thomas says that she must give the baby up. After an
ensuing fight with her father, she gets hit by a car and is told that the baby died,
though in reality, Thomas gave Evan up for adoption in order to keep her focused
on her career.

The movie's first act cuts back between Evan as an 11-year old boy
ostracized by his peers for his belief in music and Lyla and Louis' bittersweet
encounter until Evan decides to run away to New York City and really find his
parents. Following wherever he hears any kind of a beat, he soon runs into a
young street musician, Arthur (Leon G.,Thomas) in Central Park. It turns out that
Arthur is one of a group of runaways recruited by Max Wallace aka Wizard
(Robin Williams) to perform in various street corners to earn him money. After
seeing that Evan is, a natural music prodigy, Wizard gives hint a new name,
August Rush, thus beginning his journey to New York’s most prestigious music
school to reuniting with his parent with the power of music.