The sea was angry that day, my friends like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing ocean heaven near you. First radio transmission sent across the atlantic ocean. Oceans heaven 2010 a terminally ill father tries to teach his autistic son everything he needs to survive after he passes away. The film sets out to meet the creatures of the sea.
Ocean heaven 2010 06242010 hk drama 1h 36m user score. Films like this either resonate with you or they dont. Waterworld is a 1995 american postapocalyptic action film directed by kevin reynolds and cowritten by peter rader and david twohy. It is a venture into the fullness of the sea to show how prodigiously it teems with life, and into the deepest ocean beds to meet living fossils that belong to world prehistory. Thats about it really, a film about a very sensitive subject done with intelligence and heart.
Everything you need to know about oceans movie 2010. Follows the whiplash turns of a shark, the speedy swimming of a swordfish and the gliding manta ray. As the film developed i found it emotionally crushing to see how the hearts of the characters themselves are all melted converts to a fathers simple love in spite the. This summer, at the end of the seventies, jean realizes that his father and his mother do not love each other any more. The film begins on a beach and there are boys and one of them wonders what the ocean is. These must go in external sites titles dont use shorthand text speak dont copy from other websites, which includes blogs or official sites, unless you can prove ownership. For all their poverty, they share a close and loving bond, strongest expressed by their frequent trips to the local aquarium, where xuechang works as a technician. Jean discovers the ambivalence of life, its violence, the weakness of men. The movie was filmed in qingdao at the qingdao polar ocean world and received promotion. There is also an r3 edko release of this film that came out in 2010.
Rarely does the film seem to be asking for tears, and the few moments that seem right out of the tearjerker playbook exhibit a. You may experience deep emotions despite the fact ocean heaven is subtle as can be. And i saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. With the kind help of friends and neighbors, widower and aquarium worker sam wong jet li shares a contented life with his autistic 22yearold son, david lunmei kwai.
I dont even have words when i really think about it. Explore true love and affections from the angle of ordinary people overview. This includes movie guides, newspapers, and even the. I actually wanted to go through the screen and help this poor family out myself. It has all been seen and done many times before, and although it does provide. Through the eyes of jean, a child of ten, we share the everyday life of a family on holiday by the ocean. All ed material is excluded from the plot summaries database. Ocean s heaven 2010 a terminally ill father tries to teach his autistic son everything he needs to survive after he passes away. But it is definitely a beautiful movie with equally beautiful performances by the cast. The acting from li and especially wen is quite good. Then at night a rocket takes off and surprises the two clans. So much of the success of this film depends on how wen portrays his characters interactions with these two.
If youve ever spent a leisurely day on a golden beach or sailed across the vast ocean or observed the beauty of gods underwater creatures, you may be surprised that john, taken in a vision to the far future, says that on the new earth the sea was no more. I blubbered for about 30 straight minutes after i finished watching, and since viewing i have recommended this to many of my film buff friends. Dafu gets lost and xincheng searches for him arent taken to the extremes they could be. First radio transmission sent across the atlantic ocean history. The story of a fathers tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill fathers attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. The scene cuts to the galapagos where a clan of marine iguanas and horseshoe crabs wander. Jun 18, 2010 while the story in ocean heaven is a touching and profound, then it just lacked something to become a real tearjerker. Since this was released on earth day 2010, i fully expected to hear where i could send my check, any moment, but thankfully he did not go that last step. Ocean heaven is a bornandbred drama without one single kung fu insertion and, this is the best part, it also is a really good drama. Ocean heaven 2010 a terminally ill man jet li tries to prepare his autistic son for life without him. Mainly because of jet lis acting achievement as the desperate family man who is willing to do anything to know that his son is taken care of after his death.
Ocean heaven is a 2010 chinesehong kong drama film starring martial arts superstar jet li in his first full drama role. Submitting a completed film tv show submitting a video game submitting podcasts, commercials or music videos. Oceans presents details and facts about the journey of the ocean. For myself, as a single father, the challenge that sam wong jet li is facing would be incredible. And in the works, a proposed interstate 73 corridor would create more of a direct route for visitors to the grand strand from states throughout the upper midwest and north east.
Even still, oceans successfully manages to impress and inspire viewers with this dazzling sample of ocean life. If you enjoy dramas and if you enjoy asian cinema, then you should by all means give ocean heaven a chance. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. The marketing for this film went into overdrive with its touting of this being action star jet lis first dramatic role.
Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film. The veteran action star plays an aquarium worker who cares for his autistic son in the lowbudget ocean heaven his first chineselanguage production since the 2007 release of the warlords. Proudly touted by martial arts superstar jet li as his first nonaction movie, ocean heaven is a 2010 chinese drama jet li plays wang xuechang, a single father of a mentallydisabled adult son dafu. Ocean heaven haiyang tiantang 2010 rotten tomatoes. Italian physicist and radio pioneer guglielmo marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the atlantic ocean, disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth. Filmfilm adaptation of the marvel comic is much demand and has proved more successful even in the year 2011 alone 4 movie marvel is ready to call it aired thor already aired last may and had topped the box office, xmen. Unless you count his appearance in a non combative role in founding of a republic and the various attempts to balance his action status with more dramatic acting chops such as danny the dog, then ocean heaven will be that maiden effort. Ocean heaven opens with an eerily morbid scene, in which wang takes david out to sea. The film, produced in association with the census of marine life, explores the marine species of earths five oceans and reflects on the negative aspects of human activity on the environment, with perrin pierce brosnan in english. Scrubbed clean of melodrama, its about a blue collar father trying to figure out just how the hell hes going to provide for his autistic son after hes gone. Ocean heaven 2010 xiao lu xue synopsis, characteristics. Rent ocean heaven 2010 starring jet li and gwei lunmei on dvd and bluray. Dryeyed and completely unsentimental, ocean heaven is the best movie about autism ever made, from any country.
In a beautiful, underplayed and truly powerful drama, jet li stars as a father trying to teach his autistic son how to live on his own. It also costars taiwanese actress gwei lunmei, who previously starred in jay chous secret. Rent ocean heaven 2010 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Needless to say the last 30 minutes had me in tears. Story is about a terminally ill father seeking the means to ensure the wellbeing of his autistic adolescent son. Ocean heaven will stand as one of the most affecting films i have ever seen.
The images are idealised as the movie unwinds, that is, until a. Wang takes his son out to the ocean to drown him and himself. Jet li plays wang xuechang, a single father of a mentallydisabled adult son dafu. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite love that parents have for their children and their unending desire to take care and look after them to their best abilities, no matter the struggle, no matter. Maintenant vous pouvez regarder gratuite ocean heaven 2010 film, obtenez certains gratuite nouveau film en ligne regarder et gratuite nouveau film t l charger les nouvelles versions plus chaudes et les classiques sur notre site. And i heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold, the dwelling place of god is with man. Survivors escape to a deserted atoll after a semester at sea ship is sunk by a mutated twoheaded shark. Proudly touted by martial arts superstar jet li as his first nonaction movie, ocean heaven is a 2010 chinese drama. It was based on raders original 1986 screenplay and stars kevin costner, who also produced it with charles gordon and john davis. He also has complete responsibility of his son dafu wen zhang. There relationship is quite touching as is the relationship between dafu and ling ling.
Wang is also dying from liver cancer and is given around three months to live. Ocean heaven isnt contemplative either, meaning were not expected to wring meaning from people gazing into the distance. But when the atoll starts flooding, no one is safe from the double jaws of the lonster. Apr 22, 2010 since this was released on earth day 2010, i fully expected to hear where i could send my check, any moment, but thankfully he did not go that last step. Kung fu movie star, jet li, stars in film about terminally ill chinese single father who has a son with autism. That one is underplayed, but i think that is the right decision for this film. Videos you watch may be added to the tvs watch history and influence tv recommendations. Mar 18, 2010 i saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. From its first moments ocean heaven seems to be aiming for sweetness, a lightness of touch and mood. Dryeyed and completely unsentimental, its the best movie about autism ever made, from any country.