Soul Surfer

Director: Sean McNamara


Producer: David Brookwell


Genre: Action, Drama, Sport


Writers: Sean McNamara, Deborah Schwartz


Released: 2011


Time: 1 hr. 46 mins.


Movie Rating: 52 %

Soul Surfer is a true story about a surfer, Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb), who suffered a tragic shark attack where she loses her entire right arm. Though she has this disability and will not be able to continue surfing she does. She excepts her disability, never complains, and works hard to find tactics that serve her disability and her disadvantages as a surfer. So do to her hard work and perseverance she becomes and turns into a professional surfer.

I enjoyed this movie, because it does not sugar coat Bethany’s tragic situation. I liked it, because it shows the hard work that a person with that type of disability has to go through. I liked it, because it shows the scarring and the trauma that a person has to go through do to the comments of others around them. Then I enjoyed this film, because this film nits me right at home. I relate to this film so much, because only to years ago I had to go through a situation just the same. My uncle suffered a tragic accidents to where he lost part of his leg. To be exact from his knee down. So believe me when I say that the process for a person who is missing either a leg or a arm or anything for that matter is extremely hard and extremely painful. Though there is a difference between Bethany and my uncle. The difference is that my uncle has a prosthetic leg and Bethany does not have a prosthetic arm.

In this film there was a specific scene that just had me in complete tears. The scene is when she gets her covering removed from her shoulder and she sees her stitches for the first time. At that moment watching the film I had a flashback of when I saw my uncle’s stitches for the first time. Let me tell you I felt as though my heart shank to my stomach. It was just hard to remember, I guess you could say.

Anyway, the film for me was very strong, because it made me relive parts of my life that where very tragic and sad, but besides that I believe the film was great. I believe it was great, because it shows perseverance and the lesson of never giving up, because if you have the will and the strength to move forward, then everything is possible.

My rating for this action, drama, sports film is: <3<3<3<3<3 for awesomeness