August Rush is the musical journey of a young musical genius who grew up with everyone telling him he was an orphan, but knowing that his parents were out there. All he had to do was follow the music that he heard with his ears and his heart and eventually he would find his way home. Throughout the movie he continually shows his belief in this fact and he risks everything to find his parents and on the way finds friends, enemies, and a realization that music connects everything. My teacher asked us if Evan (a.k.a. August Rush) believes in anything and I think he does and I think he believes in music and the power it has to join groups together and he uses that belief to try and draw his family together. Many of the people at the orphanage thought that Evan was crazy and that he'd never find his parents because they didn't want him, but he didn't listen to them and strove to find them through the one thing he knew about, music. Throughout the movie you get to see Evan's amazing talents and how he feels the music and projects it through whatever he is playing (guitar, piano, organ, and directing an orchestra). This is a great movie and I encourage everyone who hasn't seen it to get it because as August/Evan says, "
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Ben Black
I was born on May 4th 1997, I am attending Mountain Lake High School. I am on the Football, Basketball, and Baseball teams and I attend choir and band. Archives
April 2015
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