TSUNAMI AFTERMATH

TSUNAMI AFTERMATH is a television mini-series dramatizes the tsunami event happened in Thailand on 26^th of December 2004. It was filmed in Phuket and Khao Lak as two of the worst hit areas when tsunami happened.

It begins in Oasis hotel in Khao Lak where two families spent their holiday in Thailand. Everything was fine and peaceful until this disaster came and tore the members of family apart. Fortunately, the young couple Ian and Susan Carter survived their lives, as well as Kim and Adam Peabody. However, the Carters couldn’t find their 6years old daughter. She was last seen with her father when the tsunami suddenly hit them and tore them apart. At the end, they thought they finally found their daughter in one of clinic in Thailand where all the sufferers are because they saw Martha’s name in the survivor’s list in website. Once they arrived, it was wrong that actually the girl was someone else who looked exactly like Martha. Susan as the mother who couldn’t take the traumatic feeling turned foolish and decided to take whoever is that girl as her daughter replaced Martha. Ian couldn’t do anything much about the situation happened to his wife beside he finally had to accept the reality that they couldn’t find his daughter Martha.

While in Peabody, Kim and Adam his son survived because when the tsunami came they wasn’t there in hotel. They went diving while her husband James and her oldest son John stayed at hotel and played around in the beach. Ian was happened to see James who was terribly injured with blood all over his body and he was dying. But at the time they tried to take James to clinic, he couldn’t hold on and he was dead. At the same time, Kim and Adam were in British embassy and tried as they could to find their family without knowing that James was already dead. However, when Ian was about to go to clinic, he saw Kim and he remembered that both of them stayed in the same hotel. He approached Kim and told her that her husband James was already dead on the way to clinic. Kim was so sorrow but she could hide it in front of her son Adam. By the time she finally knew that her husband was dead, Adam brought a good new that John was hospitalized in one clinic. They rushed to the clinic and found that John was dying. As a mother, Kim couldn’t guarantee John’s life on the medical in Thailand because that time everything was so minor. Then Kim went to British embassy and asked them to take John back to UK to get proper medical helps.

There are some other players in this movie that I won’t cover on, because I focus more to the victims such as Carter and Peabody. After watched this movie, I could feel how pathetic and shocking disaster is. Personally, I never experienced such disaster before beside I ever experienced earthquake but it wasn’t in my city. I just experienced the shakes so I will never know how traumatic that is if I happen to experience disaster.

One thing I learned from this movie is that family is the most important thing in life. Even though we are survived from one disaster, if one of our family members is gone life will not be the same anymore and move on is the hardest thing to do. Family is a part of me and if one part of me is gone I cannot live my life as normal anymore. This lesson teaches me how I should cherish every moment when I am with my family because that moment may not come for the second time. It also teaches me how I should prioritize my family than any other. Because regret always comes too late and there is no point regretting things we have done, but we should regret the things we have never done when we had a chance.