August Rush

This movie is a fairytale set in real life circumstances. "August Rush" is sort of a feel good, modern day fairy tale involving parents and a child separation and a boy's unrelenting search to be reunited with his parents. A boy named Evan Taylor grows up an outcast in a home for boys, all the while believing that his parents are alive. He can hear music in everything. He believes that he can hear the music from his parents. He thinks that they always wanted him and would come and get him someday.

Evan has a very strong faith that if he could learn to play the music he will have a chance to be found by his parents. He believes that they will hear him. So he runs away to New York City. He meets Arthur, a boy who was playing the guitar on a street corner for money. He follows Arthur and is taken in by Wizard, who houses various orphans and runaways, employing them to play music on the streets. Evan immediately proves to be a musical child prodigy. Wizard enlists him and gives him the name "August Rush", convincing him he will be sent back to the orphanage if his real name is ever discovered. After a raid by the police, Evan takes refuge in a church, where he again impresses with his natural musical talent and is enrolled at the Juilliard School as "August Rush." He proves to be an excellent student, better than the college students there, and a work he composes is chosen to be performed by the New York Philharmonic in Central Park. Unfortunately, Wizard threatens to reveal Evan's real name, Evan reluctantly follows him back to his life of performing music on the streets.
Let’s through a series of flashbacks, his parents are revealed to be named Lyla Novacek, a famous concert cellist, and Louis Connelly, an Irish guitarist and lead singer of a rock band. His parents met at the same party and spent the romantic night together. Due to Lyla's strict father, Lyla was unable to meet Louis where she'd agreed to and they parted, apparently never to see each other again. From that one night together Lyla became pregnant with their child. Her father did not approve of this, he wanted Lyla to have a successful career without the obstacle of a child. After an argument with her father, Lyla ran out of a restaurant and was hit by a car. While in the hospital, she gave birth to a son. Her father tells her that her son died. Finally, Lyla discovers that her son is alive, because her father confesses that he is lying. Lyla immediately sets out to New York to look for her son. The night of the concert, Evan finally chooses to run from Wizard in favor of performing at his concert. Of course, he is reunited with his mother and father at last.

I enjoyed "August Rush" so much. The story was very inspiring and the boy's unyielding faith and will to never give up on his dream to find his family really hit me. This movie shows us we will achieve our dream one day if we insist and do not give up. (541 words)